3:22 Now David’s soldiers 2 and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David 3 had sent him away and he had left in peace.
4:4 Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. 4 Mephibosheth was his name.
19:41 Then all the men of Israel began coming to the king. They asked the king, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, sneak the king away and help the king and his household cross the Jordan – and not only him but all of David’s men as well?”
20:6 Then David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bicri will cause greater disaster for us than Absalom did! Take your lord’s servants and pursue him. Otherwise he will secure 5 fortified cities for himself and get away from us.”
1 tn After the cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
2 tn Heb “And look, the servants of David.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “and was lame.”
5 tn Heb “find.” The perfect verbal form is unexpected with the preceding word “otherwise.” We should probably read instead the imperfect. Although it is possible to understand the perfect here as indicating that the feared result is thought of as already having taken place (cf. BDB 814 s.v. פֶּן 2), it is more likely that the perfect is simply the result of scribal error. In this context the imperfect would be more consistent with the following verb וְהִצִּיל (vÿhitsil, “and he will get away”).
6 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man who spoke up in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “Amasa.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.