2 Samuel 8:12
8:12 including 1 Aram, 2 Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amelek. This also included some of the plunder taken from 3 King Hadadezer son of Rehob of Zobah.
2 Samuel 10:9
10:9 When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans. 4
2 Samuel 11:17
11:17 When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David’s soldiers 5 fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died.
2 Samuel 11:24
11:24 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall and some of the king’s soldiers 6 died. Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
2 Samuel 13:7
13:7 So David sent Tamar to the house saying, “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare some food for him.”
2 Samuel 15:1
Absalom Leads an Insurrection against David
15:1 Some time later Absalom managed to acquire 7 a chariot and horses, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. 8
2 Samuel 23:15
23:15 David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!”
1 tn Heb “from.”
2 tc The present translation follows the MT; a few Hebrew mss along with the LXX and Syriac read “Edom” (cf. 2 Sam 8:14 and 1 Chr 18:11). Many modern English versions read “Edom” here (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
3 tn Heb “and from the plunder of.”
4 tn Heb “and Joab saw that the face of the battle was to him before and behind and he chose from all the best in Israel and arranged to meet Aram.”
5 tn Heb “some of the people from the servants of David.”
6 tc The translation follows the Qere (“your servants”) rather than the Kethib (“your servant”).
7 tn Heb “acquired for himself.”
8 tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”