2 Samuel 10:18

10:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers. ¹  He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ²  God will punish me severely, ³  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

2 Samuel 24:2

24:2 The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.”

[10:18]  ¹ 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.

[19:13]  ² tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

[19:13]  ³ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”