12:8 Some of the Gadites joined David at the stronghold in the desert. They were warriors who were trained for battle; they carried shields and spears. They were as fierce as lions and could run as quickly as gazelles across the hills. 1
20:1 In the spring, at the time when kings normally conduct wars, 15 Joab led the army into battle and devastated the land of the Ammonites. He went and besieged Rabbah, while David stayed in Jerusalem. Joab defeated Rabbah and tore it down.
24:31 Just like their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, they also cast lots before King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, the leaders of families, the priests, and the Levites. The families of the oldest son cast lots along with the those of the youngest. 21
28:1 David assembled in Jerusalem 24 all the officials of Israel, including the commanders of the tribes, the commanders of the army divisions that served the king, the commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, the officials who were in charge of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, the eunuchs, and the warriors, including the most skilled of them.
28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. 25 I have made the preparations for building it.
28:20 David said to his son Solomon: “Be strong and brave! Do it! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! 26 For the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not leave you or abandon you before all the work for the service of the Lord’s temple is finished.
1 tn Heb “warriors, men of battle for war, prepared with shield and spear, and [like] the face of a lion were their faces, and like gazelles on the hills to hurry.”
2 tn Heb “and David went out before them and answered and said to them.”
3 tn Heb “there will be to me concerning you a heart for unity.”
4 tn Heb “with no violence in my hands.”
5 tn Heb “fathers.”
6 tn Heb “If to you [it is] good and from the
7 tn Heb “let us spread and let us send.” The words “the word” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
8 tn Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”
9 tn The name is spelled “Joram” in the parallel text in 2 Sam 8:10.
10 tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”
11 tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Tou.”
12 tn Heb “[along with] all items of gold and silver and bronze.”
13 tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”
14 tc Heb “Is it not to explore and to overturn and to spy out the land (that) his servants have come to you?” The Hebrew term לַהֲפֹךְ (lahafakh, “to overturn”) seems misplaced in the sequence. Some emend the form to לַחְפֹּר (lakhpor, “to spy out”). The sequence of three infinitives may be a conflation of alternative readings.
15 tn Heb “and it was at the time of the turning of the year, at the time of the going out of kings.”
16 tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.
17 tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”
18 tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”
19 tn Heb “take for yourself.”
20 tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”
21 tn Heb “the fathers [i.e., families] of the head [i.e., oldest] just like his youngest brother.”
22 tn Heb “and his brothers, sons of respect, [were] 2,700, heads of fathers.”
23 tn Heb “with respect to every matter of God and matter of the king.”
24 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
25 tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the
26 tn Or perhaps, “don’t be discouraged.”