2 Samuel 12:30

12:30 He took the crown of their king 1  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, 2  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

2 Samuel 21:1

The Gibeonites Demand Revenge

21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 3  The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 4  because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, 5 

for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,

arranged in all its particulars and secured.

He always delivers me,

and brings all I desire to fruition. 6 

1 tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”

2 tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.

3 tn Heb “sought the face of the Lord.”

4 tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”

5 tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

6 tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”