2 Samuel 10:18

10:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers. ¹  He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

2 Samuel 13:34

13:34 In the meantime Absalom fled. When the servant who was the watchman looked up, he saw many people coming from the west ²  on a road beside the hill.

2 Samuel 14:33

14:33 So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king ³  summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom ⁴  bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 17:13

17:13 If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”

2 Samuel 19:17

19:17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant ⁶  of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed ⁷  the Jordan within sight of the king.

¹ tn Heb “horsemen” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT) but the Lucianic recension of the LXX reads “foot soldiers,” as does the parallel text in 1 Chr 19:18. Cf. NAB, NIV.

² tn Heb “behind him.”

³ tn Heb “he.” Joab, acting on behalf of the king, may be the implied subject.

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “Absalom.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.

⁴ tn Heb “youth.”

⁵ tn Heb “rushed into.”