28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. 6 I have made the preparations for building it.
1 tn Or “horsemen.”
2 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Hadadezer) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them one hundred chariot horses.”
4 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has “seven hundred.”
5 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has the variant spelling “Shobach.”
7 tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the