translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “look, your bone and your flesh [are] we.”


text: Heb “you were the one who led out and the one who brought in Israel.”


text: Heb “elders.”


text: Or “covenant.”


text: Heb “all Israel.”


text: Heb “and there [were] the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land.”


text: Or perhaps “strikes down.”


text: Heb “head and officer.”


text: Heb “went up.”


text: Heb “head.”


text: Heb “to that which surrounds.” On the referent here as “the surrounding walls,” see HALOT 740 s.v. סָבִיב .


text: Heb “and David went, going and becoming great, and the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, Lord of hosts] was with him.”


text: Heb “and these are the number of the warriors who were David’s.”


label: NET textual note

text: The marginal reading ( Qere ) has “officers;” the consonantal text ( Kethib ) has “the Thirty” (see v. 15 ).


text: Heb “he was wielding his spear against 300, [who were] slain at one time.”


text: Heb “after him.”


text: Some read here “Ephes Dammim.” See 1 Sam 17:1 .


text: Heb “delivered it.”


text: Heb “and the Lord delivered [with] a great deliverance.”


text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-E2 ; Map10-B4 .


text: Heb “Who will give me water to drink?” On the rhetorical use of מִי ( mi ) here, see BDB 566 s.v. f.


text: Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12 .


text: Heb “Far be it to me from my God from doing this.”


text: Heb “with their lives.” The same expression occurs later in this verse.


text: Heb “These things the three warriors did.”


text: 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).


text: Heb “he was wielding his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain.”


text: Heb “and to him [reading with the Qere ] there was a name among the three.”


text: Or “more than.”


text: Heb “of the three.”


text: Heb “the two of Ariel, Moab.” The precise meaning of אֲרִיאֵל (’ ari ’ el ) is uncertain; some read “warrior.” The present translation assumes that the word is a proper name and that בְּנֵי ( bÿney , “sons of”) has accidentally dropped from the text by homoioarcton (note the preceding שְׁנֵי , shÿney ).


text: Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches for the standard cubit, this individual would be 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall.


text: Heb “went down to.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:25 has the variant spelling of “Shammah.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:26 has the variant spelling of “Paltite.”


text: In 2 Sam 23:27 this individual’s name is given as “Mebunnai.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:28 has the variant “Zalmon.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:29 has the variant spelling “Ittai.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:28 has the variant spelling “Hiddai.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:31 has the variant spelling “Abi-Albon.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:31 has the variant spelling “Barhumite.”


text: In 2 Sam 23:32 this individual’s name is given as “Jashen.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:33 has the variant spelling “Shammah.”


text: In 2 Sam 23:33 this individual’s name is given as “Sharar.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:34 has the variant “Eliphelet son of Ahasbai the Maacathite.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:35 has the variant spelling “Hezrai.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:36 has the variant “Igal son of Nathan from Zobah.”