2 Samuel 1:6

1:6 The young man who was telling him this ¹  said, “I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.

2 Samuel 5:3

5:3 When all the leaders ²  of Israel came to the king at Hebron, King David made an agreement with them ³  in Hebron before the Lord. They designated ⁴  David as king over Israel.

2 Samuel 7:7

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say ⁵  to any of the leaders ⁶  whom I appointed to care for ⁷  my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

2 Samuel 17:15

17:15 Then Hushai reported to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Here is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the leaders ⁸  of Israel to do, and here is what I have advised.

2 Samuel 18:5

18:5 The king gave this order to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake deal gently with the young man Absalom.” Now the entire army was listening when the king gave all the leaders this order concerning Absalom.

2 Samuel 23:13

23:13 At the time of ⁹  the harvest three ¹⁰  of the thirty leaders went down to ¹¹  David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim.

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¹ tc The Syriac Peshitta and one ms of the LXX lack the words “who was telling him this” of the MT.

² tn Heb “elders.”

³ tn Heb “and the king, David, cut for them a covenant.”

⁴ tn Heb “anointed.”

⁵ tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.

⁶ tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”

⁷ tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).

⁸ tn Heb “elders.”

⁹ tn The meaning of Hebrew אֶל־קָצִיר (’el qatsir) seems here to be “at the time of harvest,” although this is an unusual use of the phrase. As S. R. Driver points out, this preposition does not normally have the temporal sense of “in” or “during” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 366).

¹⁰ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁלֹשָׁה (shÿloshah, “three”) rather than the Kethib of the MT שְׁלֹשִׁים (shÿloshim, “thirty”). “Thirty” is due to dittography of the following word and makes no sense in the context.

¹¹ tn Heb “went down…and approached.”