2 Samuel 2:25

2:25 The Benjaminites formed their ranks ¹  behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill.

2 Samuel 10:16

10:16 Then Hadadezer sent for Arameans from ²  beyond the Euphrates River, ³  and they came to Helam. Shobach, the general in command of Hadadezer’s army, led them. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 11:7

11:7 When Uriah came to him, David asked about how Joab and the army were doing and how the campaign was going. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 12:28

12:28 So now assemble the rest of the army ⁶  and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city and it will be named for me.”

2 Samuel 18:6-7

18:6 Then the army marched out to the field to fight against Israel. The battle took place in the forest of Ephraim. 18:7 The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. ⁷  The slaughter there was great that day – 20,000 soldiers were killed.

2 Samuel 20:23

20:23 Now Joab was the general in command of all the army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoida was over the Kerethites and the Perethites.

2 Samuel 22:30

22:30 Indeed, ⁸ with your help ⁹  I can charge ¹⁰  against an army; ¹¹ 

by my God’s power ¹²  I can jump over a wall. ¹³ 

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¹ tn Heb “were gathered together.”

² tn Heb “and Hadadezer sent and brought out Aram which is.”

³ tn Heb “from beyond the River.” The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “was before them.”

⁵ tn Heb “concerning the peace of Joab and concerning the peace of the people and concerning the peace of the battle.”

⁶ tn Heb “people.” So also in vv. 29, 31.

⁷ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 9).

⁸ tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.

⁹ tn Heb “by you.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “I will run.” The imperfect verbal forms in v. 30 indicate the subject’s potential or capacity to perform an action. Though one might expect a preposition to follow the verb here, this need not be the case with the verb רוּץ (ruts; see 1 Sam 17:22). Some emend the Qal to a Hiphil form of the verb and translate, “I put to flight [literally, “cause to run”] an army.”

¹¹ tn More specifically, the noun refers to a raiding party or to a contingent of troops (see HALOT 177 s.v. II גְדוּד). The picture of a divinely empowered warrior charging against an army in almost superhuman fashion appears elsewhere in ancient Near Eastern literature. See R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 228.

¹² tn Heb “by my God.”

¹³ tn David uses hyperbole to emphasize his God-given military superiority.