2 Samuel 10:6

10:6 When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, ¹  they ²  sent and hired 20,000 foot soldiers from Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah, ³  in addition to 1,000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ⁵  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ⁶  from the leaders ⁷  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁸  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁹  publicly exposed their corpses ¹⁰  after ¹¹  they ¹²  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

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¹ tn Heb “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”

² tn Heb “the Ammonites.”

³ tn Or “Arameans of Beth Rehob and Arameans of Zobah.”

⁴ tn Or perhaps “the men of Tob.” The ancient versions (the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) understand the name to be “Ish-tob.” It is possible that “Ish” is dittographic and that we should read simply “Tob,” a reading adopted by a number of recent English versions.

⁵ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

⁶ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

⁷ tn Heb “lords.”

⁸ tn Heb “stolen.”

⁹ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

¹⁰ tn Heb “had hung them.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in the day.”

¹² tn Heb “Philistines.”