2 Samuel 3:22

Abner Is Killed

3:22 Now David’s soldiers ¹  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 ²  had sent him away and he had left in peace.

2 Samuel 12:3-4

12:3 But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. ³  It used to ⁴  eat his food, ⁵  drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. ⁶  It was just like a daughter to him.

12:4 “When a traveler arrived at the rich man’s home, ⁷  he did not want to use one of his own sheep or cattle to feed ⁸  the traveler who had come to visit him. ⁹  Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and cooked ¹⁰  it for the man who had come to visit him.”

2 Samuel 16:1

David Receives Gifts from Ziba

16:1 When David had gone a short way beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a couple of donkeys that were saddled, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred raisin cakes, a hundred baskets of summer fruit, ¹¹  and a container of wine.

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 ¹²  Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 21:8

21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab ¹³  whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ¹⁴  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ¹⁵  from the leaders ¹⁶  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ¹⁷  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ¹⁸  publicly exposed their corpses ¹⁹  after ²⁰  they ²¹  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

2 Samuel 21:14

21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything ²²  that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers ²³  for the land.

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¹ tn Heb “And look, the servants of David.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “his sons.”

⁴ tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical.

⁵ tn Heb “from his morsel.”

⁶ tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lay.”

⁷ tn Heb “came to the rich man.” In the translation “arrived at the rich man’s home” has been used for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “and he refused to take from his flock and from his herd to prepare [a meal] for.”

⁹ tn Heb “who had come to him” (also a second time later in this verse). The word “visit” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and prepared.”

¹¹ tn Heb “a hundred summer fruit.”

¹² tn Heb “come to.”

¹³ tc The MT reads “Michal” here, but two Hebrew manuscripts read “Merab,” along with some LXX manuscripts. Cf. 1 Sam 18:19.

¹⁴ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

¹⁵ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

¹⁶ tn Heb “lords.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “stolen.”

¹⁸ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

¹⁹ tn Heb “had hung them.”

²⁰ tn Heb “in the day.”

²¹ tn Heb “Philistines.”

²² tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have here כְּכֹל (kÿkhol, “according to all”).

²³ tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).