2 Samuel 2:22

2:22 So Abner spoke again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground. 1  How then could I show 2  my face in the presence of Joab your brother?”

2 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Then Abner spoke privately 3  with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately 4  of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. 5 

1 tn Heb “Why should I strike you to the ground?”

2 tn Heb “lift.”

3 tn Heb “into the ears of.”

4 tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”

5 tn Heb “all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin.”