2 Samuel 5:10

5:10 David’s power grew steadily, for the Lord God who commands armies was with him.

2 Samuel 3:38

3:38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel?


tc 4QSama and the LXX lack the word “God,” probably due to harmonization with the more common biblical phrase “the Lord of hosts.”

tn Traditionally, “the Lord God of hosts” (KJV, NASB); NIV, NLT “the Lord God Almighty”; CEV “the Lord (+ God NCV) All-Powerful.”

tn The translation assumes that the disjunctive clause is circumstantial-causal, giving the reason for David’s success.

tn Heb “a leader and a great one.” The expression is a hendiadys.