¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

² tn Heb “arose and went.”

³ tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.

⁴ tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).

⁵ tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew mss in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.

⁶ tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.

⁷ tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”