Discovery Box2 Samuel 2:14 
Context2:14 Abner said to Joab, “Let the soldiers get up and fight 1 before us.” Joab said, “So be it!” 2
2 Samuel 2:31
Context2:31 But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men – in all, 360 men had died!
2 Samuel 21:22
Context21:22 These four were the descendants of Rapha who lived in Gath; they were killed 3 by David and his soldiers. 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 tn Heb “they fell.”
4 tn Heb “his servants.”
