2 Samuel 4:10
4:10 when someone told me that Saul was dead – even though he thought he was bringing good news 1 – I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him!
2 Samuel 15:4
15:4 Absalom would then say, “If only they would make me 2 a judge in the land! Then everyone who had a judicial complaint 3 could come to me and I would make sure he receives a just settlement.”
1 tn Heb “and he was like a bearer of good news in his eyes.”
2 tn Heb “Who will make me?”
3 tn Heb “a complaint and a judgment.” The expression is a hendiadys.