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 22:39
Context22:39 I wipe them out and beat them to death;
they cannot get up;
they fall at my feet.
2 Samuel 24:11
Context24:11 When David got up the next morning, the Lord had already spoken 3 to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:
2 Samuel 24:19
Context24:19 So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the Lord’s instructions.
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 “and the word of the
