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2 Samuel 2:14

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2:14 Abner said to Joab, “Let the soldiers get up and fight 1  before us.” Joab said, “So be it!” 2 

2 Samuel 17:5

Context
17:5 But Absalom said, “Call for 3  Hushai the Arkite, and let’s hear what he has to say.” 4 

1 tn Heb “play.” What is in view here is a gladiatorial contest in which representative groups of soldiers engage in mortal combat before the watching armies. Cf. NAB “perform for us”; NASB “hold (have NRSV) a contest before us”; NLT “put on an exhibition of hand-to-hand combat.”

2 tn Heb “let them arise.”

3 tc In the MT the verb is singular, but in the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate it is plural.

4 tn Heb “what is in his mouth.”



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