Discovery Box2 Samuel 15:23 
Context15:23 All the land was weeping loudly 1 as all these people were leaving. 2 As the king was crossing over the Kidron Valley, all the people were leaving 3 on the road that leads to the desert.
2 Samuel 17:13
Context17:13 If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”
2 Samuel 23:13
Context23:13 At the time of 4 the harvest three 5 of the thirty leaders went down to 6 David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim.
1 tn Heb “with a great voice.”
2 tn Heb “crossing over.”
3 tn Heb “crossing near the face of.”
4 tn The meaning of Hebrew אֶל־קָצִיר (’el qatsir) seems here to be “at the time of harvest,” although this is an unusual use of the phrase. As S. R. Driver points out, this preposition does not normally have the temporal sense of “in” or “during” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 366).
5 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
6 tn Heb “went down…and approached.”
