2 Samuel 3:34

3:34 Your hands 1  were not bound,

and your feet were not put into irons.

You fell the way one falls before criminals.”

All the people 2  wept over him again.

2 Samuel 11:17

11:17 When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David’s soldiers 3  fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died.

2 Samuel 13:1

The Rape of Tamar

13:1 Now David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. In the course of time David’s son Amnon fell madly in love with her. 4 

1 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”

2 tc 4QSama lacks the words “all the people.”

3 tn Heb “some of the people from the servants of David.”

4 tn Heb “Amnon the son of David loved her.” The following verse indicates the extreme nature of his infatuation, so the translation uses “madly in love” here.

sn Amnon was the half-brother of Tamar; Absalom was her full blood-brother.