2 Samuel 7:23

7:23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation ¹  on the earth? Their God ²  went ³  to claim ⁴  a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, ⁵  before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 10:18

10:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers. ⁷  He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

2 Samuel 15:14

15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, ⁸  “Come on! ⁹  Let’s escape! ¹⁰  Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring ¹¹  disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “a nation, one.”

² tn Heb “whose God” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.

⁴ tn Heb “redeem.”

⁵ tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.”

⁶ tn Heb “from Egypt, nations and their gods.” The LXX has “nations and tents,” which reflects a mistaken metathesis of letters in אֶלֹהָיו (e’lohav, “its gods”) and אֹהָלָיו (’ohalav, “its tents”).

⁷ tn Heb “horsemen” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT) but the Lucianic recension of the LXX reads “foot soldiers,” as does the parallel text in 1 Chr 19:18. Cf. NAB, NIV.

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¹⁴ tn Heb “Arise!”

¹⁵ tn Heb “let’s flee.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “thrust.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”