2 Samuel 2:14

2:14 Abner said to Joab, “Let the soldiers get up and fight ¹  before us.” Joab said, “So be it!” ² 

Acts 7:26

7:26 The next day Moses ³  saw two men ⁴  fighting, and tried to make peace between ⁵  them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

¹ tn Heb “play.” What is in view here is a gladiatorial contest in which representative groups of soldiers engage in mortal combat before the watching armies. Cf. NAB “perform for us”; NASB “hold (have NRSV) a contest before us”; NLT “put on an exhibition of hand-to-hand combat.”

² tn Heb “let them arise.”

³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Grk “saw them”; the context makes clear that two individuals were involved (v. 27).

⁵ tn Or “tried to reconcile” (BDAG 964-65 s.v. συναλλάσσω).