2 Samuel 9:6

9:6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed low with his face toward the ground. ¹  David said, “Mephibosheth?” He replied, “Yes, at your service.” ² 

2 Samuel 12:13

12:13 Then David exclaimed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord!” Nathan replied to David, “Yes, and the Lord has forgiven ³  your sin. You are not going to die.

2 Samuel 12:19

12:19 When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he ⁴  realized that the child was dead. So David asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” They replied, “Yes, he’s dead.”

2 Samuel 14:16

14:16 Yes! ⁵  The king may ⁶  listen and deliver his female servant ⁷  from the hand of the man who seeks to remove ⁸  both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’ ⁹ 

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¹ tn Heb “he fell on his face and bowed down.”

² tn Heb “Look, your servant.”

³ tn Heb “removed.”

⁴ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Or “for.”

⁶ tn Or “will.” The imperfect verbal form can have either an indicative or modal nuance. The use of “perhaps” in v. 15b suggests the latter here.

⁷ tn Heb “in order to deliver his maid.”

⁸ tn Heb “destroy.”

⁹ tn Heb “from the inheritance of God.” The expression refers to the property that was granted to her family line in the division of the land authorized by God.