2 Samuel 2:14

2:14 Abner said to Joab, “Let the soldiers get up and fight ¹  before us.” Joab said, “So be it!” ² 

2 Samuel 6:11

6:11 The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his family. ³ 

2 Samuel 6:14

6:14 Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the Lord. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 7:1

The Lord Establishes a Covenant with David

7:1 The king settled into his palace, ⁵  for the Lord gave him relief ⁶  from all his enemies on all sides. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 10:15

10:15 When the Arameans realized that they had been defeated by Israel, they consolidated their forces. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 15:1

Absalom Leads an Insurrection against David

15:1 Some time later Absalom managed to acquire ⁹  a chariot and horses, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 15:17

15:17 The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing ¹¹  at a spot ¹²  some distance away.

2 Samuel 18:2

18:2 David then sent out the army – a third under the leadership of Joab, a third under the leadership of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under the leadership of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I too will indeed march out with you.”

[2:14]  ¹ tn Heb “play.” What is in view here is a gladiatorial contest in which representative groups of soldiers engage in mortal combat before the watching armies. Cf. NAB “perform for us”; NASB “hold (have NRSV) a contest before us”; NLT “put on an exhibition of hand-to-hand combat.”

[2:14]  ² tn Heb “let them arise.”

[6:11]  ³ tn Heb “house,” both here and in v. 12.

[6:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “and David was dancing with all his strength before the Lord, and David was girded with a linen ephod.”

[7:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

[7:1]  ⁶ tn Or “rest.”

[7:1]  ⁷ tn The translation understands the disjunctive clause in v. 1b as circumstantial-causal.

[10:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “were gathered together.”

[15:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “acquired for himself.”

[15:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”

[15:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and they stood.”

[15:17]  ¹² tn Heb “house.”