2 Samuel 17:26

17:26 The army of Israel ¹  and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

2 Samuel 12:28

12:28 So now assemble the rest of the army ²  and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city and it will be named for me.”

2 Samuel 23:13

23:13 At the time of ³  the harvest three ⁴  of the thirty leaders went down to ⁵  David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 24:5

24:5 They crossed the Jordan and camped at Aroer, on the south side of the city, at ⁶  the wadi of Gad, near Jazer.

2 Samuel 11:11

11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations ⁷  with my wife? As surely as you are alive, ⁸  I will not do this thing!”

¹ tn Heb “and Israel.”

² tn Heb “people.” So also in vv. 29, 31.

³ tn The meaning of Hebrew אֶל־קָצִיר (’el qatsir) seems here to be “at the time of harvest,” although this is an unusual use of the phrase. As S. R. Driver points out, this preposition does not normally have the temporal sense of “in” or “during” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 366).

⁴ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁלֹשָׁה (shÿloshah, “three”) rather than the Kethib of the MT שְׁלֹשִׁים (shÿloshim, “thirty”). “Thirty” is due to dittography of the following word and makes no sense in the context.

⁵ tn Heb “went down…and approached.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the middle of.”

⁵ tn Heb “and lay.”

⁶ tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”