Discovery Box2 Samuel 1:12 
Context1:12 They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord’s people, and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel 3:32
Context3:32 So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly 1 over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too.
2 Samuel 3:34
Context3:34 Your hands 2 were not bound,
and your feet were not put into irons.
You fell the way one falls before criminals.”
All the people 3 wept over him again.
2 Samuel 12:22
Context12:22 He replied, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, 4 ‘Perhaps 5 the Lord will show pity and the child will live.
2 Samuel 13:36
Context13:36 Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived, wailing and weeping. 6 The king and all his servants wept loudly 7 as well.
1 tn Heb “lifted up his voice and wept.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.
2 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”
3 tc 4QSama lacks the words “all the people.”
4 tn Heb “said.”
5 tn Heb “Who knows?”
6 tn Heb “and they lifted their voice and wept.”
7 tn Heb “with a great weeping.”
