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 7:23

7:23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation ⁵  on the earth? Their God ⁶  went ⁷  to claim ⁸  a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, ⁹  before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 18:18

18:18 Prior to this ¹¹  Absalom had set up a monument ¹²  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 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 The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.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 “a nation, one.”

⁶ 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.

⁷ tn The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.

⁸ tn Heb “redeem.”

⁹ tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.”

¹⁰ 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”).

¹¹ tn Heb “and.” This disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) describes an occurrence that preceded the events just narrated.

¹² tn Heb “a pillar.”