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 9:12
Context9:12 Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. All the members of Ziba’s household were Mephibosheth’s servants.
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!
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
