2 Samuel 2:29

2:29 Abner and his men went through the Arabah all that night. They crossed the Jordan River ¹  and went through the whole region of Bitron ²  and came to Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 4:5

4:5 Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite – Recab and Baanah – went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.

2 Samuel 5:1

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5:1 All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood! ³ 

2 Samuel 6:6

6:6 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, ⁴  Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of ⁵  the ark of God, ⁶  because the oxen stumbled.

2 Samuel 10:14

10:14 When the Ammonites saw the Arameans flee, they fled before his brother Abishai and went into the city. Joab withdrew from fighting the Ammonites and returned to ⁷  Jerusalem. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 10:16

10:16 Then Hadadezer sent for Arameans from ⁹  beyond the Euphrates River, ¹⁰  and they came to Helam. Shobach, the general in command of Hadadezer’s army, led them. ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 17:18

17:18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.

2 Samuel 20:14

20:14 Sheba ¹²  traveled through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of ¹³  Beth Maacah and all the Berite region. When they had assembled, ¹⁴  they too joined him.

2 Samuel 23:13

23:13 At the time of ¹⁵  the harvest three ¹⁶  of the thirty leaders went down to ¹⁷  David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 24:7

24:7 Then they went to the fortress of Tyre ¹⁸  and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beer Sheba.

¹ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “and they went, all the Bitron.” The meaning of the Hebrew word “Bitron,” which is used only here in the OT, is disputed. The translation above follows BDB 144 s.v. בִּתְרוֹן in taking the word to be a proper name of an area east of the Jordan. A different understanding was advocated by W. R. Arnold, who took the word to refer to the forenoon or morning; a number of modern scholars and translations have adopted this view (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, CEV, NLT). See W. R. Arnold, “The Meaning of בתרון,” AJSL 28 (1911-1912): 274-83. In this case one could translate “and they traveled all morning long.”

³ tn Heb “look we are your bone and your flesh.”

⁵ tn 1 Chr 13:9 has “Kidon.”

⁶ tn Or “steadied.”

⁷ tn Heb “and Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and grabbed it.”

⁷ tn Heb “and Joab returned from against the sons of Ammon and entered.”

⁸ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁹ tn Heb “and Hadadezer sent and brought out Aram which is.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “from beyond the River.” The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “was before them.”

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sheba) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tc In keeping with the form of the name in v. 15, the translation deletes the “and” found in the MT.

¹³ tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading וַיִּקָּהֲלוּ (vayyiqqahalu, “and they were gathered together”) rather than the Kethib of the MT וַיִּקְלֻהוּ (vayyiqluhu, “and they cursed him”). The Kethib is the result of metathesis.

¹³ 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).

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁵ tn Heb “went down…and approached.”

¹⁵ map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.