2 Samuel 10:8

10:8 The Ammonites marched out and were deployed for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the men from Aram Zobah, Rehob, Ish-tob, and Maacah were by themselves in the field.

2 Samuel 10:1

David and the Ammonites

10:1 Later the king of the Ammonites died and his son Hanun succeeded him. ¹ 

2 Samuel 20:1

Sheba’s Rebellion

20:1 Now a wicked man ²  named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, ³  happened to be there. He blew the trumpet ⁴  and said,

“We have no share in David;

we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!

Every man go home, ⁵  O Israel!”

2 Samuel 20:24

20:24 Adoniram ⁶  was supervisor of the work crews. ⁷  Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the secretary.

¹ tn Heb “reigned in his place.”

² tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”

³ tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.

⁴ tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.

⁵ tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.

⁶ tn Heb “Adoram” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV, CEV), but see 1 Kgs 4:6; 5:14.

⁷ tn Heb “was over the forced labor.”