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 15:25

15:25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.

2 Samuel 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for 6  all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 17:9

17:9 At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, 7  whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’

2 Samuel 17:25

17:25 Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married 8  Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 18:33

18:33 (19:1) 9  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, 10  Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!” 11 

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 tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

7 tn Heb “that he falls on them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] at the first [encounter]; or “that some of them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] fall at the first [encounter].”

8 tn Heb “come to.”

9 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.

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

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