Text -- 2 Samuel 2:14 (NET)

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

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Sa 2:14

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.”