¹tn Heb “look, your bone and your flesh [are] we.”
²tn Heb “you were the one who led out and the one who brought in Israel.”
³tn Heb “elders.”
⁴tn Or “covenant.”
⁵tn Heb “anointed.”
⁶tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Samuel.”
⁷sn Jebus was an older name for the city of Jerusalem (cf. Josh 15:8; Judg 1:21).
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⁸tn Heb “and there [were] the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land.”
⁹sn Verse 6 inserts into the narrative parenthetical information about Joab’s role in the conquest of the city. Verse 7 then picks up where v. 5 left off.
¹⁰tn Or perhaps “strikes down.”
¹¹tn Heb “head and officer.”
¹²tn Heb “went up.”
¹³tn Heb “head.”
¹⁴tn Heb “to that which surrounds.” On the referent here as “the surrounding walls,” see HALOT 740.
¹⁵tn Heb “and David went, going and becoming great, and the Lord of hosts was with him.”
¹⁶tn Heb “and these were the heads of the warriors who were David’s, who held strongly with him in his kingdom and with all Israel to make him king, according to the word of the Lord, over Israel.”
¹⁷tn Heb “and these are the number of the warriors who were David’s.”
¹⁸tc The marginal reading (Qere) has “officers;” the consonantal text (Kethib) has “the Thirty” (see v. 15).
¹⁹tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against 300, [who were] slain at one time.”
²⁰tn Heb “after him.”
²¹tc Some read here “Ephes Dammim.” See 1 Sam 17:1.
²²tn Heb “delivered it.”
²³tn Heb “and the Lord delivered [with] a great deliverance.”
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²⁵tn Heb “Who will give me water to drink?” On the rhetorical use of /m here, see BDB 566.
²⁶tn Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12.
²⁷tn Heb “Far be it to me from my God from doing this.”
²⁸tn Heb “with their lives.” The same expression occurs later in this verse.
²⁹tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”
³⁰tc The Syriac reads “thirty” here and at the beginning of v. 21; this reading is followed by some English translations (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).
³¹tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain.”
³²tn Heb “and to him [reading with the Qere] there was a name among the three.”
³³tn Or “more than.”
³⁴tn Heb “of the three.”
³⁵tc Heb “the two of Ariel, Moab.” The precise meaning of layra is uncertain; some read “warrior.” The present translation assumes that the word is a proper name and that ynb, “sons of,” has accidentally dropped from the text by homoioarcton (note the preceding ynv).
³⁶tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches for the standard cubit, this individual would be 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall.
³⁷tn Heb “went down to.”
³⁸tn Or “more than.”
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⁴⁰tn In 2 Sam 23:27 this individual’s name is given as “Mebunnai.”
⁴¹tn In 2 Sam 23:32 this individual’s name is given as “Jashen.”
⁴²tn In 2 Sam 23:33 this individual’s name is given as “Sharar.”