Discovery Box2 Samuel 1:5 
Context1:5 David said to the young man 1 who was telling him this, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” 2
2 Samuel 1:13
Context1:13 David said to the young man who told this to him, “Where are you from?” He replied, “I am an Amalekite, the son of a resident foreigner.” 3
2 Samuel 13:3
Context13:3 Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very crafty man.
2 Samuel 14:21
Context14:21 Then the king said to Joab, “All right! I 4 will do this thing! Go and bring back the young man Absalom!
2 Samuel 16:5
Context16:5 Then King David reached 5 Bahurim. There a man from Saul’s extended family named Shimei son of Gera came out, yelling curses as he approached. 6
1 tn In v. 2 he is called simply a “man.” The word used here in v. 5 (so also in vv. 6, 13, 15), though usually referring to a young man or servant, may in this context designate a “fighting” man, i.e., a soldier.
2 tc Instead of the MT “who was recounting this to him, ‘How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?’” the Syriac Peshitta reads “declare to me how Saul and his son Jonathan died.”
3 tn The Hebrew word used here refers to a foreigner whose social standing was something less than that of native residents of the land, but something more than that of a nonresident alien who was merely passing through.
4 tc Many medieval Hebrew
5 tn Heb “came to.” The form of the verb in the MT is odd. Some prefer to read וַיַּבֹא (vayyavo’), preterite with vav consecutive) rather than וּבָא (uva’), apparently perfect with vav), but this is probably an instance where the narrative offline vÿqatal construction introduces a new scene.
6 tn Heb “And look, from there a man was coming out from the clan of the house of Saul and his name was Shimei son of Gera, continually going out and cursing.”
