2 Samuel 6:2

6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled ¹  to ²  Baalah ³  in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name ⁴  of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

2 Samuel 7:8

7:8 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd ⁵  to make you leader of my people Israel.

2 Samuel 7:27

7:27 for you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have told ⁶  your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ ⁷  That is why your servant has had the courage ⁸  to pray this prayer to you.

2 Samuel 10:18

10:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers. ⁹  He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

2 Samuel 17:25

17:25 Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married ¹⁰  Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ¹¹  God will punish me severely, ¹²  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

[6:2]  ¹ tn Heb “arose and went.”

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

[6:2]  ³ tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).

[6:2]  ⁴ 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.

[7:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “and from after the sheep.”

[7:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “have uncovered the ear of.”

[7:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a house.” This maintains the wordplay from v. 11 (see the note on the word “house” there) and is continued in v. 29.

[7:27]  ¹¹ tn Heb “has found his heart.”

[10:18]  ¹³ 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.

[17:25]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “come to.”

[19:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

[19:13]  ²² tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”