2 Samuel 2:23

2:23 But Asahel¹ refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his² spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel³ collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner.⁴ Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect.⁵

2 Samuel 5:20

5:20 So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, “The Lord has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.⁶

2 Samuel 6:2

6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled⁷ to⁸ Baalah⁹ in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name¹⁰ of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

2 Samuel 15:21

15:21 But Ittai replied to the king, “As surely as the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive,¹¹ there I¹² will be as well!”

¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn Heb “the.” The article functions here as a possessive pronoun.

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

⁴tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “and they stand.”

⁶tn The name means “Lord of the outbursts.”

¹¹tn Heb “arose and went.”

¹²tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.

¹³tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).

¹⁴tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew mss in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.

¹⁶tn Heb “whether for death or for life.”

¹⁷tn Heb “your servant.”