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 4:7

4:7 They had entered ³  the house while Ish-bosheth ⁴  was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him ⁵  and then cut off his head. ⁶  Taking his head, ⁷  they traveled on the way of the Arabah all that night.

2 Samuel 7:9

7:9 I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated ⁸  all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 10:19

10:19 When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer ¹⁰  saw they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subjects of Israel. ¹¹  The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 15:30

15:30 As David was going up the Mount of Olives, he was weeping as he went; his head was covered and his feet were bare. All the people who were with him also had their heads covered and were weeping as they went up.

2 Samuel 17:10

17:10 If that happens even the bravest soldier – one who is lion-hearted – will virtually melt away. For all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and that those who are with him are brave.

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

² tc 4QSam^a lacks the words “all the people.”

³ tn After the concluding disjunctive clause at the end of v. 6, the author now begins a more detailed account of the murder and its aftermath.

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ish-bosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “they struck him down and killed him.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

⁶ tn Heb “and they removed his head.” The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate lack these words.

⁷ tc The Lucianic Greek recension lacks the words “his head.”

⁸ tn Heb “cut off.”

⁹ tn Heb “and I will make for you a great name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the servants of Hadadezer.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and they served them.”