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 3:30

3:30 So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.

2 Samuel 9:5

9:5 So King David had him brought 3  from the house of Makir son of Ammiel in 4  Lo Debar.

2 Samuel 10:13

10:13 So Joab and his men 5  marched out to do battle with the Arameans, and they fled before him.

2 Samuel 11:22

11:22 So the messenger departed. When he arrived, he informed David of all the news that Joab had sent with him.

2 Samuel 12:29

12:29 So David assembled all the army and went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it.

2 Samuel 22:50

22:50 So I will give you thanks, O Lord, before the nations! 6 

I will sing praises to you. 7 

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 “sent and took him.”

4 tn Heb “from.”

5 tn Heb “and the army which was with him.”

6 sn This probably alludes to the fact that David will praise the Lord in the presence of the defeated nations when they, as his subjects, bring their tribute payments. Ideally God’s chosen king was to testify to the nations of God’s greatness. See J. Eaton, Kingship and the Psalms (SBT), 182-85.

7 tn Heb “to your name.” God’s “name” refers metonymically to his divine characteristics as suggested by his name, in this case “Lord,” the primary name of Israel’s covenant God which suggests his active presence with his people (see Exod 3:12-15).