2 Samuel 3:35
3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely 1 if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”
2 Samuel 6:2
6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled 2 to 3 Baalah 4 in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name 5 of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.
2 Samuel 8:4
8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers 6 and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. 7
1 tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”
2 tn Heb “arose and went.”
3 tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.
4 tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).
5 tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew mss in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.
6 tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.
7 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”