2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ¹  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ²  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ³  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁴  might do!”

2 Samuel 12:3

12:3 But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. ⁵  It used to ⁶  eat his food, ⁷  drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. ⁸  It was just like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 17:25

17:25 Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married ⁹  Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 21:10

21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, ¹⁰  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed ¹¹  on them by day, nor the wild animals ¹²  by night.

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¹ tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

² tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “honored.”

⁴ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

⁵ tn Heb “his sons.”

⁶ tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical.

⁷ tn Heb “from his morsel.”

⁸ tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lay.”

⁹ tn Heb “come to.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”

¹¹ tn Heb “rest.”

¹² tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”