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 22:39

22:39 I wipe them out and beat them to death;

they cannot get up;

they fall at my feet.

2 Samuel 24:11

24:11 When David got up the next morning, the Lord had already spoken 3  to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

2 Samuel 24:19

24:19 So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the Lord’s instructions.

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 tn Heb “let them arise.”

3 tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came.”