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14 Abner said to Joab, “Let the soldiers get up and fight[a] before us.” Joab said, “So be it!”[b]

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  1. 2 Samuel 2:14 tn Heb “play.” What is in view here is a gladiatorial contest in which representative groups of soldiers engage in mortal combat before the watching armies. Cf. NAB “perform for us”; NASB “hold (have NRSV) a contest before us”; NLT “put on an exhibition of hand-to-hand combat.”
  2. 2 Samuel 2:14 tn Heb “let them arise.”