17:8 Hushai went on to say, “You know your father and his men – they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs. 1 Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.
2 Samuel 21:20
21:20 Yet another battle occurred in Gath. On that occasion there was a large man 2 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 tc The LXX (with the exception of the recensions of Origen and Lucian) repeats the description as follows: “Just as a female bear bereft of cubs in a field.”