2 Samuel 18:1

The Death of Absalom

18:1 David assembled the army that was with him. He appointed leaders of thousands and leaders of hundreds.

2 Samuel 23:19

23:19 From ¹  the three he was given honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of the three.

2 Samuel 24:4

24:4 But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of ²  Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king’s presence in order to muster the Israelite army.

2 Samuel 2:8

David’s Army Clashes with the Army of Saul

2:8 Now Abner son of Ner, the general in command of Saul’s army, had taken Saul’s son Ish-bosheth ³  and had brought him to Mahanaim.

2 Samuel 3:38

3:38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader ⁴  has fallen this day in Israel?

2 Samuel 10:16

10:16 Then Hadadezer sent for Arameans from ⁵  beyond the Euphrates River, ⁶  and they came to Helam. Shobach, the general in command of Hadadezer’s army, led them. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 4:2

4:2 Now Saul’s son ⁸  had two men who were in charge of raiding units; one was named Baanah and the other Recab. They were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, who was a Benjaminite. (Beeroth is regarded as belonging to Benjamin,

2 Samuel 10:3

10:3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? ⁹  No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!” ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 10:18

10:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers. ¹¹  He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

2 Samuel 18:5

18:5 The king gave this order to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake deal gently with the young man Absalom.” Now the entire army was listening when the king gave all the leaders this order concerning Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:6

19:6 You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now ¹²  that if ¹³  Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, ¹⁴  it would be all right with you.

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ¹⁵  God will punish me severely, ¹⁶  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.”

[23:19]  ¹ tn Or “more than.”

[24:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and the word of the king was stronger than.”

[2:8]  ¹ sn The name Ish-bosheth means in Hebrew “man of shame.” It presupposes an earlier form such as Ish-baal (“man of the Lord”), with the word “baal” being used of Israel’s God. But because the Canaanite storm god was named “Baal,” that part of the name was later replaced with the word “shame.”

[3:38]  ¹ tn Heb “a leader and a great one.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[10:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and Hadadezer sent and brought out Aram which is.”

[10:16]  ² tn Heb “from beyond the River.” The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[10:16]  ³ tn Heb “was before them.”

[4:2]  ¹ tc The present translation, “Saul’s son had two men,” is based on the reading “to the son of Saul,” rather than the MT’s “the son of Saul.” The context requires the preposition to indicate the family relationship.

[10:3]  ¹ tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

[10:3]  ² tn Heb “Is it not to explore the city and to spy on it and to overthrow it [that] David has sent his servants to you?”

[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.

[19:6]  ¹ tn Heb “today.”

[19:6]  ² tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSam^a, and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוּ (lu, “if”) rather than MT לֹא (lo’, “not”).

[19:6]  ³ tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack “today.”

[19:13]  ¹ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

[19:13]  ² tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”