2 Samuel 4:4

4:4 Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. ¹  Mephibosheth was his name.

2 Samuel 6:2

6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled ²  to ³  Baalah ⁴  in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name ⁵  of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

2 Samuel 7:23

7:23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation ⁶  on the earth? Their God ⁷  went ⁸  to claim ⁹  a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, ¹⁰  before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods. ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 14:11

14:11 She replied, “In that case, ¹²  let the king invoke the name of ¹³  the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head ¹⁴  will fall to the ground.”

2 Samuel 18:18

18:18 Prior to this ¹⁵  Absalom had set up a monument ¹⁶  and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning “I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial.

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¹ tn Heb “and was lame.”

² tn Heb “arose and went.”

³ tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.

⁴ tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).

⁵ tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew mss in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.

⁶ tn Heb “a nation, one.”

⁷ tn Heb “whose God” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.

⁹ tn Heb “redeem.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.”

¹¹ tn Heb “from Egypt, nations and their gods.” The LXX has “nations and tents,” which reflects a mistaken metathesis of letters in אֶלֹהָיו (e’lohav, “its gods”) and אֹהָלָיו (’ohalav, “its tents”).

¹² tn The words “in that case” are not in the Hebrew text, but may be inferred from the context. They are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarification.

¹³ tn Heb “let the king remember.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “of your son.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and.” This disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) describes an occurrence that preceded the events just narrated.

¹⁶ tn Heb “a pillar.”