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 3:30
Context3:30 So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.
2 Samuel 9:5
Context9:5 So King David had him brought 3 from the house of Makir son of Ammiel in 4 Lo Debar.
2 Samuel 10:13
Context10:13 So Joab and his men 5 marched out to do battle with the Arameans, and they fled before him.
2 Samuel 11:22
Context11:22 So the messenger departed. When he arrived, he informed David of all the news that Joab had sent with him.
2 Samuel 12:29
Context12:29 So David assembled all the army and went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it.
2 Samuel 22:50
Context22:50 So I will give you thanks, O Lord, before the nations! 6
I will sing praises to you. 7
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 “sent and took him.”
4 tn Heb “from.”
5 tn Heb “and the army which was with him.”
6 sn This probably alludes to the fact that David will praise the
7 tn Heb “to your name.” God’s “name” refers metonymically to his divine characteristics as suggested by his name, in this case “
