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 9:3

9:3 The king asked, “Is there not someone left from Saul’s family, ²  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 9:11

9:11 Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do everything that my lord the king has instructed his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth was a regular guest ³  at David’s table, ⁴  just as though he were one of the king’s sons.

2 Samuel 12:4

12:4 “When a traveler arrived at the rich man’s home, ⁵  he did not want to use one of his own sheep or cattle to feed ⁶  the traveler who had come to visit him. ⁷  Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and cooked ⁸  it for the man who had come to visit him.”

2 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Now Absalom used to get up early and stand beside the road that led to the city gate. Whenever anyone came by who had a complaint to bring to the king for arbitration, Absalom would call out to him, “What city are you from?” The person would answer, “I, your servant, ⁹  am from one of the tribes of Israel.”

2 Samuel 15:14

15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, ¹⁰  “Come on! ¹¹  Let’s escape! ¹²  Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring ¹³  disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” ¹⁴ 

2 Samuel 17:9

17:9 At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, ¹⁵  whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’

2 Samuel 17:12

17:12 We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive – not one of them!

2 Samuel 17:18

17:18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.

2 Samuel 19:28

19:28 After all, there was no one in the entire house of my grandfather ¹⁶  who did not deserve death from my lord the king. But instead you allowed me to eat at your own table! ¹⁷  What further claim do I have to ask ¹⁸  the king for anything?”

2 Samuel 20:21

20:21 That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled ¹⁹  against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute ²⁰  his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

2 Samuel 24:13

24:13 Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven ²¹  years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide ²²  what I should tell the one who sent me.”

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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 “house.”

³ tn Heb “eating.”

⁴ tc Heb “my table.” But the first person reference to David is awkward here since the quotation of David’s words has already been concluded in v. 10; nor does the “my” refer to Ziba, since the latter part of v. 11 does not seem to be part of Ziba’s response to the king. The ancient versions are not unanimous in the way that they render the phrase. The LXX has “the table of David” (τῆς τραπέζης Δαυιδ, th" trapezh" Dauid); the Syriac Peshitta has “the table of the king” (patureh demalka’); the Vulgate has “your table” (mensam tuam). The present translation follows the LXX.

⁵ tn Heb “came to the rich man.” In the translation “arrived at the rich man’s home” has been used for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “and he refused to take from his flock and from his herd to prepare [a meal] for.”

⁷ 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.

⁸ tn Heb “and prepared.”

⁹ tn Heb “your servant.” So also in vv. 8, 15, 21.

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¹¹ tn Heb “Arise!”

¹² tn Heb “let’s flee.”

¹³ tn Heb “thrust.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “that he falls on them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] at the first [encounter]; or “that some of them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] fall at the first [encounter].”

¹⁶ tn Heb “father.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and you placed your servant among those who eat at your table.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “to cry out to.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “lifted his hand.”

²⁰ tn Heb “Look!”

²¹ tc The LXX has here “three” rather than “seven,” and is followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT. See 1 Chr 21:12.

²² tn Heb “now know and see.”