2 Samuel 8:10

8:10 he 1  sent his son Joram 2  to King David to extend his best wishes 3  and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Toi had been at war with Hadadezer. 4  He brought with him various items made of silver, gold, and bronze. 5 

2 Samuel 12:30

12:30 He took the crown of their king 6  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, 7  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

2 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The Gibeonites said to him, “We 8  have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, 9  nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel.” David asked, 10  “What then are you asking me to do for you?”

1 tn Heb “Toi.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun in the translation for stylistic reasons.

2 tn The name appears as “Hadoram” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:10.

3 tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

4 tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.”

5 tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”

6 tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”

7 tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.

8 tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לָנוּ (lanu, “to us”) rather than the MT לִי (li, “to me”). But for a contrary opinion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 53, 350.

9 tn Heb “house.”

10 tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.