2 Samuel 3:20

3:20 When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him.

2 Samuel 24:8

24:8 They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem. ¹ 

2 Samuel 19:17

19:17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant ²  of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed ³  the Jordan within sight of the king.

2 Samuel 18:7

18:7 The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. ⁴  The slaughter there was great that day – 20,000 soldiers were killed.

2 Samuel 8:4

8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers ⁵  and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 21:20

21:20 Yet another battle occurred in Gath. On that occasion there was a large man ⁷  who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all! He too was a descendant of Rapha.

2 Samuel 8:5

8:5 The Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, but David killed 22,000 of the Arameans.

2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ⁸  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ⁹  and it will be ¹⁰  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ¹¹  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 10:6

10:6 When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, ¹²  they ¹³  sent and hired 20,000 foot soldiers from Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah, ¹⁴  in addition to 1,000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob. ¹⁵ 

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹ tn Heb “youth.”

² tn Heb “rushed into.”

¹ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 9).

¹ tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.

² tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”

¹ tn Heb “a man of stature.”

¹ tn Heb “work.”

² tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

³ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

⁴ tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

¹ tn Heb “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”

² tn Heb “the Ammonites.”

³ tn Or “Arameans of Beth Rehob and Arameans of Zobah.”

⁴ tn Or perhaps “the men of Tob.” The ancient versions (the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) understand the name to be “Ish-tob.” It is possible that “Ish” is dittographic and that we should read simply “Tob,” a reading adopted by a number of recent English versions.