2 Samuel 6:2
6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled 1 to 2 Baalah 3 in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name 4 of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.
2 Samuel 11:11
11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations 5 with my wife? As surely as you are alive, 6 I will not do this thing!”
2 Samuel 15:25
15:25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.
1 tn Heb “arose and went.”
2 tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.
3 tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).
4 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.
5 tn Heb “and lay.”
6 tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”