in 21:1–14. This was done very late in the literary growth of the book, probably after the formulation of the Deuteronomistic history (cf. Noth 1981:124–25 n. 3). It originally stood somewhere else in the materials about David’s reign, perhaps in connection with the account of the conquest of Jerusalem in 5:6–10 or with the story of the arrival of the ark in chap. 6 (cf. Budde), or perhaps with chap. 7 (cf. Caspari). The reason it was relocated was the belief that the altar erected by David on the