2 Samuel 2:23

2:23 But Asahel ¹  refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his ²  spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel ³  collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner. ⁴  Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 11:21

11:21 Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone ⁶  down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?’ just say to him, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

2 Samuel 17:23

17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave ⁷  of his father.

2 Samuel 18:33

18:33 (19:1) ⁸  The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, “My son, Absalom! My son, my son, ⁹  Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!” ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ¹¹  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ¹²  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹³  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 21:9

21:9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them ¹⁴  died ¹⁵  together; they were put to death during harvest time – during the first days of the beginning ¹⁶  of the barley harvest.

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¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “the.” The article functions here as a possessive pronoun.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “and they stand.”

⁶ sn The upper millstone (Heb “millstone of riding”) refers to the heavy circular stone that was commonly rolled over a circular base in order to crush and grind such things as olives.

⁷ tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”

⁸ sn This marks the beginning of ch. 19 in the Hebrew text. Beginning with 18:33, the verse numbers through 19:43 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 18:33 ET = 19:1 HT, 19:1 ET = 19:2 HT, 19:2 ET = 19:3 HT, etc., through 19:43 ET = 19:44 HT. From 20:1 the versification in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible is again the same.

⁹ tc One medieval Hebrew ms, some mss of the LXX, and the Vulgate lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography.

¹⁰ tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography.

¹¹ tn Heb “house.”

¹² tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

¹³ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”

¹⁴ tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shÿva’tam, “the seven of them”) rather than MT שִׁבַעְתִּים (shiva’tim, “seventy”).

¹⁵ tn Heb “fell.”

¹⁶ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת (bithkhillat, “in the beginning”) rather than MT תְחִלַּת (tÿkhillat, “beginning of”).