Discovery Box2 Samuel 1:10 
Context1:10 So I stood over him and put him to death, since I knew that he couldn’t live in such a condition. 1 Then I took the crown which was on his head and the 2 bracelet which was on his arm. I have brought them here to my lord.” 3
2 Samuel 2:23
Context2:23 But Asahel 4 refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his 5 spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel 6 collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner. 7 Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect. 8
2 Samuel 3:29
Context3:29 May his blood whirl over 9 the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! 10 May the males of Joab’s house 11 never cease to have 12 someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle 13 or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”
2 Samuel 4:4
Context4:4 Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. 14 Mephibosheth was his name.
2 Samuel 6:20
Context6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, 15 Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. 16 She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished 17 himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool 18 might do!”
2 Samuel 10:3
Context10:3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? 19 No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!” 20
2 Samuel 12:20
Context12:20 So David got up from the ground, bathed, put on oil, and changed his clothes. He went to the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then, when he entered his palace, he requested that food be brought to him, and he ate.
2 Samuel 15:30
Context15:30 As David was going up the Mount of Olives, he was weeping as he went; his head was covered and his feet were bare. All the people who were with him also had their heads covered and were weeping as they went up.
2 Samuel 18:9
Context18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his 21 mule, it 22 went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, 23 while the mule he had been riding kept going.
2 Samuel 20:22
Context20:22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab 24 blew the trumpet, and his men 25 dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. 26 Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 21:14
Context21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything 27 that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers 28 for the land.
2 Samuel 24:16
Context24:16 When the angel 29 extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. 30 He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” 31 (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)
1 tn Heb “after his falling”; NAB “could not survive his wound”; CEV “was too badly wounded to live much longer.”
2 tc The MT lacks the definite article, but this is likely due to textual corruption. It is preferable to read the alef (א) of אֶצְעָדָה (’ets’adah) as a ה (he) giving הַצְּעָדָה (hatsÿ’adah). There is no reason to think that the soldier confiscated from Saul’s dead body only one of two or more bracelets that he was wearing (cf. NLT “one of his bracelets”).
3 sn The claims that the soldier is making here seem to contradict the story of Saul’s death as presented in 1 Sam 31:3-5. In that passage it appears that Saul took his own life, not that he was slain by a passerby who happened on the scene. Some scholars account for the discrepancy by supposing that conflicting accounts have been brought together in the MT. However, it is likely that the young man is here fabricating the account in a self-serving way so as to gain favor with David, or so he supposes. He probably had come across Saul’s corpse, stolen the crown and bracelet from the body, and now hopes to curry favor with David by handing over to him these emblems of Saul’s royalty. But in so doing the Amalekite greatly miscalculated David’s response to this alleged participation in Saul’s death. The consequence of his lies will instead be his own death.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “the.” The article functions here as a possessive pronoun.
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “and they stand.”
9 tn Heb “and may they whirl over.” In the Hebrew text the subject of the plural verb is unexpressed. The most likely subject is Abner’s “shed blood” (v. 28), which is a masculine plural form in Hebrew. The verb חוּל (khul, “whirl”) is used with the preposition עַל (’al) only here and in Jer 23:19; 30:23.
10 tc 4QSama has “of Joab” rather than “of his father” read by the MT.
11 tn Heb “the house of Joab.” However, it is necessary to specify that David’s curse is aimed at Joab’s male descendants; otherwise it would not be clear that “one who works at the spindle” refers to a man doing woman’s work rather than a woman.
12 tn Heb “and may there not be cut off from the house of Joab.”
13 tn The expression used here is difficult. The translation “one who works at the spindle” follows a suggestion of S. R. Driver that the expression pejoratively describes an effeminate man who, rather than being a mighty warrior, is occupied with tasks that are normally fulfilled by women (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 250-51; cf. NAB “one unmanly”; TEV “fit only to do a woman’s work”; CEV “cowards”). But P. K. McCarter, following an alleged Phoenician usage of the noun to refer to “crutches,” adopts a different view. He translates the phrase “clings to a crutch,” seeing here a further description of physical lameness (II Samuel [AB], 118). Such an idea fits the present context well and is followed by NIV, NCV, and NLT, although the evidence for this meaning is questionable. According to DNWSI 2:915-16, the noun consistently refers to a spindle in Phoenician, as it does in Ugaritic (see UT 468).
14 tn Heb “and was lame.”
15 tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”
16 tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
17 tn Heb “honored.”
18 tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”
19 tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”
20 tn Heb “Is it not to explore the city and to spy on it and to overthrow it [that] David has sent his servants to you?”
21 tn Heb “the.”
22 tn Heb “the donkey.”
23 tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”
24 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25 tn Heb “they”; the referent (Joab’s men) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn Heb “his tents.”
27 tc Many medieval Hebrew
28 tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).
29 tn Heb “messenger.”
30 tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”
31 tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”
