2 Samuel 15:14

15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, ¹  “Come on! ²  Let’s escape! ³  Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring ⁴  disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” ⁵ 

2 Samuel 23:20

23:20 Benaiah son of Jehoida was a brave warrior ⁶  from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab. ⁷  He also went down and killed a lion in a cistern on a snowy day.

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² tn Heb “Arise!”

³ tn Heb “let’s flee.”

⁴ tn Heb “thrust.”

⁵ tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

⁶ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading חַיִל (khayil, “valor”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, חַי (khay, “life”).

⁷ tc Heb “the two of Ariel, Moab.” The precise meaning of אריאל is uncertain; some read “warrior.” The present translation assumes that the word is a proper name and that בני, “sons of,” has accidentally dropped from the text by homoioarcton (note the preceding שׁני).