2 Samuel 8:8

8:8 From Tebah ¹  and Berothai, Hadadezer’s cities, King David took a great deal of bronze.

2 Samuel 20:23

20:23 Now Joab was the general in command of all the army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoida was over the Kerethites and the Perethites.

2 Samuel 20:1

Sheba’s Rebellion

20:1 Now a wicked man ²  named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, ³  happened to be there. He blew the trumpet ⁴  and said,

“We have no share in David;

we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!

Every man go home, ⁵  O Israel!”

2 Samuel 22:14

22:14 The Lord thundered ⁶  from the sky;

the sovereign One ⁷  shouted loudly. ⁸ 

[8:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Betah” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV), but the name should probably be corrected to “Tebah.” See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:8.

[20:1]  ² tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”

[20:1]  ³ tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.

[20:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.

[20:1]  ⁵ tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.

[22:14]  ⁶ tn The shortened theme vowel indicates that the prefixed verbal form is a preterite.

[22:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Most High.” This divine title (עֶלְיוֹן, ’elyon) pictures God as the exalted ruler of the universe who vindicates the innocent and judges the wicked. See especially Ps 47:2.

[22:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “offered his voice.” In this poetic narrative context the prefixed verbal form is best understood as a preterite indicating past tense, not an imperfect. Note the preterite form in the preceding line. The text of Ps 18:13 adds at this point, “hail and coals of fire.” These words are probably accidentally added from v. 12b; they do not appear in 2 Sam 22:14.