2 Samuel 6:12

6:12 David was told, ¹  “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

2 Samuel 14:15

14:15 I have now come to speak with my lord the king about this matter, because the people have made me fearful. ²  But your servant said, ‘I will speak to the king! Perhaps the king will do what his female servant ³  asks.

2 Samuel 14:22

14:22 Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground and thanked ⁴  the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, because the king has granted the request of your ⁵  servant!”

2 Samuel 18:28

18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!” ⁶  He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated ⁷  the men who opposed ⁸  my lord the king!”

2 Samuel 19:9

19:9 All the people throughout all the tribes of Israel were arguing among themselves saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies. He rescued us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:42

19:42 All the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative! Why are you so upset about this? Have we eaten at the king’s expense? ⁹  Or have we misappropriated anything for our own use?”

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 ¹⁰  them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

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¹ tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”

² tc The LXX (ὄψεταί με, opsetai me) has misunderstood the Hebrew יֵרְאֻנִי (yerÿ’uni, Piel perfect, “they have made me fearful”), taking the verb to be a form of the verb רָאָה (ra’ah, “to see”) rather than the verb יָרֵא (yare’, “to fear”). The fact that the Greek translators were working with an unvocalized Hebrew text (i.e., consonants only) made them very susceptible to this type of error.

³ tn Here and in v. 16 the woman refers to herself as the king’s אָמָה (’amah), a term that refers to a higher level female servant toward whom the master might have some obligation. Like the other term, this word expresses her humility, but it also suggests that the king might have some obligation to treat her in accordance with the principles of justice.

⁴ tn Heb “blessed.”

⁵ tc The present translation reads with the Qere “your” rather than the MT “his.”

⁶ tn Heb “Peace.”

⁷ tn Heb “delivered over.”

⁸ tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”

⁹ tn Heb “from the king.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “swore an oath to.”