12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose 4 you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.
14:25 Now in all Israel everyone acknowledged that there was no man as handsome as Absalom. 10 From the sole of his feet to the top of his head he was perfect in appearance. 11
18:24 Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, 14 and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.
19:14 He 16 won over the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man. Then they sent word to the king saying, “Return, you and all your servants as well.”
23:1 These are the final words of David:
“The oracle of David son of Jesse,
the oracle of the man raised up as
the ruler chosen by the God of Jacob, 19
Israel’s beloved 20 singer of songs:
1 tc The Syriac Peshitta and one
2 tn Heb “on his bed.”
3 tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”
4 tn Heb “anointed.”
5 tn Or “for.”
6 tn Or “will.” The imperfect verbal form can have either an indicative or modal nuance. The use of “perhaps” in v. 15b suggests the latter here.
7 tn Heb “in order to deliver his maid.”
8 tn Heb “destroy.”
9 tn Heb “from the inheritance of God.” The expression refers to the property that was granted to her family line in the division of the land authorized by God.
10 tn Heb “Like Absalom there was not a handsome man in all Israel to boast exceedingly.”
11 tn Heb “there was not in him a blemish.”
12 tc Heb “like the returning of all, the man whom you are seeking.” The LXX reads differently: “And I will return all the people to you the way a bride returns to her husband, except for the life of the one man whom you are seeking.” The other early versions also struggled with this verse. Modern translations are divided as well: the NAB, NRSV, REB, and NLT follow the LXX, while the NASB and NIV follow the Hebrew text.
13 tn Heb “all of the people will be safe.”
14 tn Heb “the two gates.”
15 tn Heb “I am seeing the running of the first one like the running of Ahimaaz.”
16 tn The referent of “he” is not entirely clear: cf. NCV “David”; TEV “David’s words”; NRSV, NLT “Amasa.”
17 tn Heb “great.”
18 tn Heb “a man of stature.”
19 tn Heb “the anointed one of the God of Jacob.”
20 tn Or “pleasant.”