7:4 According to the genealogical records of their families, they had 36,000 warriors available for battle, for they had numerous wives and sons. 3
12:1 These were the men who joined David in Ziklag, when he was banished 4 from the presence of Saul son of Kish. (They were among the warriors who assisted him in battle.
12:37 From the other side of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 men armed with all kinds of weapons.
20:4 Later there was a battle 8 with the Philistines in Gezer. 9 At that time Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Sippai, 10 one of the descendants of the Rephaim, and the Philistines 11 were subdued.
20:5 There was another battle with the Philistines in which Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, 12 whose spear had a shaft as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom. 13
20:6 In a battle in Gath 14 there was a large man who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot – twenty-four in all! He too was a descendant of Rapha.
1 tn Heb “and in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagrites and they fell by their hand and they lived in their tents unto all the face of the east of Gilead.”
2 tn Heb “and they were helped against them and they were given over into their hand, the Hagrites and all who were with them, for to God they cried out in the battle and he was entreated [or “allowed himself to be entreated”] by them for they trusted in him.”
3 tn Heb “and unto them by their generations to the house of their fathers [were] troops of war of battle, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.”
4 tn Heb “kept from.”
5 tn Heb “go out in battle.”
6 tn Heb “camp.”
6 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:10 has “the Ammonites” in place of “the Arameans” here.
7 tn Heb “battle stood.”
8 tn The parallel text in 2 Sam 21:18 identifies this site as “Gob.”
9 tn The parallel text in 2 Sam 21:18 has the variant spelling “Saph.”
10 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Philistines) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tc The Hebrew text reads, “Elchanan son of Jair killed Lachmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite.” But it is likely that the accusative marker in front of לַחְמִי (lakhmiy, “Lachmi”) is a corruption of בֵּית (bet), and that אֶת־לַחְמִי (’et-lakhmiy) should be emended to בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי (bet hallakhmiy, “the Bethlehemite”). See 2 Sam 21:19.
9 tc See tc note on the parallel passage in 2 Sam 21:19.
9 tn Heb “and there was another battle, in Gath.”
10 tn Heb “for my name.”