2 Samuel 2:22

2:22 So Abner spoke again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground. ¹  How then could I show ²  my face in the presence of Joab your brother?”

2 Samuel 18:23

18:23 But he said, ³  “Whatever happens, I want to go!” So Joab ⁴  said to him, “Then go!” So Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Jordan plain, and he passed the Cushite.

2 Samuel 24:3

24:3 Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”

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¹ tn Heb “Why should I strike you to the ground?”

² tn Heb “lift.”

³ tn The words “but he said” are not in the Hebrew text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.