2 Samuel 18:24

18:24 Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, ¹  and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.

2 Samuel 19:8

19:8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they ²  all came before him.

David Goes Back to Jerusalem

But the Israelite soldiers ³  had all fled to their own homes. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 6:2

6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled ⁵  to ⁶  Baalah ⁷  in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name ⁸  of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

2 Samuel 7:2

7:2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”

[18:24]  ¹ tn Heb “the two gates.”

[19:8]  ² tn Heb “all the people.”

[19:8]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” (see 18:16-17).

[19:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “had fled, each to his tent.”

[6:2]  ³ tn Heb “arose and went.”

[6:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.

[6:2]  ⁵ tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).

[6:2]  ⁶ tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew mss in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.