2 Samuel 2:16

2:16 As they grappled with one another, each one stabbed his opponent with his sword and they fell dead together.¹ So that place is called the Field of Flints;² it is in Gibeon.

2 Samuel 12:21

12:21 His servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? While³ the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!”

2 Samuel 15:21

15:21 But Ittai replied to the king, “As surely as the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive,⁴ there I⁵ will be as well!”

2 Samuel 18:20

18:20 But Joab said to him, “You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today,⁶ for the king’s son is dead.”

¹tn Heb “and they grabbed each one the head of his neighbor with his sword in the side of his neighbor and they fell together.”

²tn The meaning of the name “Helkath Hazzurim” (so NIV; KJV, NASB, NRSV similar) is not clear. BHK relates the name to the Hebrew term for “side,” and this is reflected in NAB “the Field of the Sides”; the Greek OT revocalizes the Hebrew to mean something like “Field of Adversaries.” Cf. also TEV, NLT “Field of Swords”; CEV “Field of Daggers.”

³tc For the MT בַּעֲבוּר (ba’avur, “for the sake of”) we should probably read בְּעוֹד (bÿ’od, “while”). See the Lucianic Greek recension, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum.

⁴tn Heb “whether for death or for life.”

⁵tn Heb “your servant.”

⁶tn Heb “but this day you will not bear good news.”