2 Samuel 2:22
2:22 So Abner spoke again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground.
1 How then could I show
2 my face in the presence of Joab your brother?”
2 Samuel 10:9
10:9 When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans. 3
2 Samuel 11:15
11:15 In the letter he wrote: “Station Uriah in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.”
2 Samuel 17:19
17:19 His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.
2 Samuel 18:8
18:8 The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.
1 tn Heb “Why should I strike you to the ground?”
2 tn Heb “lift.”
3 tn Heb “and Joab saw that the face of the battle was to him before and behind and he chose from all the best in Israel and arranged to meet Aram.”