2 Samuel 5:10

5:10 David’s power grew steadily, for the Lord God ¹  who commands armies ²  was with him. ³ 

2 Samuel 22:30

22:30 Indeed, ⁴ with your help ⁵  I can charge ⁶  against an army; ⁷ 

by my God’s power ⁸  I can jump over a wall. ⁹ 

[5:10]  ¹ tc 4QSam^a and the LXX lack the word “God,” probably due to harmonization with the more common biblical phrase “the Lord of hosts.”

[5:10]  ² tn Traditionally, “the Lord God of hosts” (KJV, NASB); NIV, NLT “the Lord God Almighty”; CEV “the Lord (+ God NCV) All-Powerful.”

[5:10]  ³ tn The translation assumes that the disjunctive clause is circumstantial-causal, giving the reason for David’s success.

[22:30]  ⁴ tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.

[22:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “by you.”

[22:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will run.” The imperfect verbal forms in v. 30 indicate the subject’s potential or capacity to perform an action. Though one might expect a preposition to follow the verb here, this need not be the case with the verb רוּץ (ruts; see 1 Sam 17:22). Some emend the Qal to a Hiphil form of the verb and translate, “I put to flight [literally, “cause to run”] an army.”

[22:30]  ⁷ tn More specifically, the noun refers to a raiding party or to a contingent of troops (see HALOT 177 s.v. II גְדוּד). The picture of a divinely empowered warrior charging against an army in almost superhuman fashion appears elsewhere in ancient Near Eastern literature. See R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 228.

[22:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “by my God.”

[22:30]  ⁹ tn David uses hyperbole to emphasize his God-given military superiority.