5:20 So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, “The Lord has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. 3
1 tn Heb “and they grabbed each one the head of his neighbor with his sword in the side of his neighbor and they fell together.”
2 tn The meaning of the name “Helkath Hazzurim” (so NIV; KJV, NASB, NRSV similar) is not clear. BHK relates the name to the Hebrew term for “side,” and this is reflected in NAB “the Field of the Sides”; the Greek OT revocalizes the Hebrew to mean something like “Field of Adversaries.” Cf. also TEV, NLT “Field of Swords”; CEV “Field of Daggers.”
3 tn The name means “Lord of the outbursts.”
4 tc The Syriac Peshitta lacks “in its place.”
5 tn Heb “plant.”
6 tn Heb “shaken.”
7 tn Heb “the sons of violence.”
8 tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”
9 tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”