2 Samuel 4:7

4:7 They had entered ¹  the house while Ish-bosheth ²  was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him ³  and then cut off his head. ⁴  Taking his head, ⁵  they traveled on the way of the Arabah all that night.

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ⁶  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ⁷  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ⁸  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁹  might do!”

2 Samuel 11:25

11:25 David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing upset you. ¹⁰  There is no way to anticipate whom the sword will cut down. ¹¹  Press the battle against the city and conquer ¹²  it.’ Encourage him with these words.” ¹³ 

2 Samuel 16:1

David Receives Gifts from Ziba

16:1 When David had gone a short way beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a couple of donkeys that were saddled, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred raisin cakes, a hundred baskets of summer fruit, ¹⁴  and a container of wine.

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 ¹⁵  against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute ¹⁶  his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

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¹ 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.

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ish-bosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “they struck him down and killed him.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

⁴ tn Heb “and they removed his head.” The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate lack these words.

⁵ tc The Lucianic Greek recension lacks the words “his head.”

⁶ tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

⁷ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “honored.”

⁹ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “let not this matter be evil in your eyes.”

¹¹ tn Heb “according to this and according to this the sword devours.”

¹² tn Heb “overthrow.”

¹³ tn The Hebrew text does not have “with these words.” They are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

¹⁴ tn Heb “a hundred summer fruit.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “lifted his hand.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “Look!”