2 Samuel 4:2

4:2 Now Saul’s son ¹  had two men who were in charge of raiding units; one was named Baanah and the other Recab. They were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, who was a Benjaminite. (Beeroth is regarded as belonging to Benjamin,

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ²  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ³  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ⁴  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁵  might do!”

2 Samuel 9:3

9:3 The king asked, “Is there not someone left from Saul’s family, ⁶  that I may extend God’s kindness to him?” Ziba said to the king, “One of Jonathan’s sons is left; both of his feet are crippled.”

2 Samuel 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for ⁷  all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 21:2

21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to ⁸  them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

2 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The Gibeonites said to him, “We ⁹  have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, ¹⁰  nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel.” David asked, ¹¹  “What then are you asking me to do for you?”

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 ¹²  that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers ¹³  for the land.

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¹ tc The present translation, “Saul’s son had two men,” is based on the reading “to the son of Saul,” rather than the MT’s “the son of Saul.” The context requires the preposition to indicate the family relationship.

² tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

³ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “honored.”

⁵ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

⁶ tn Heb “house.”

⁷ tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

⁸ tn Heb “swore an oath to.”

⁹ tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לָנוּ (lanu, “to us”) rather than the MT לִי (li, “to me”). But for a contrary opinion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 53, 350.

¹⁰ tn Heb “house.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have here כְּכֹל (kÿkhol, “according to all”).

¹³ 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).