Discovery Box2 Samuel 1:9 
Context1:9 He said to me, ‘Stand over me and finish me off! 1 I’m very dizzy, 2 even though I’m still alive.’ 3
2 Samuel 1:23
Context1:23 Saul and Jonathan were greatly loved 4 during their lives,
and not even in their deaths were they separated.
They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 5:13
Context5:13 David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.
2 Samuel 6:22
Context6:22 I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! 5 But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!”
2 Samuel 12:16
Context12:16 Then David prayed to 6 God for the child and fasted. 7 He would even 8 go and spend the night lying on the ground.
2 Samuel 23:19
Context23:19 From 9 the three he was given honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of the three.
1 tn As P. K. McCarter (II Samuel [AB], 59) points out, the Polel of the verb מוּת (mut, “to die”) “refers to dispatching or ‘finishing off’ someone already wounded and near death.” Cf. NLT “put me out of my misery.”
2 tn Heb “the dizziness has seized me.” On the meaning of the Hebrew noun translated “dizziness,” see P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 59-60. The point seems to be that he is unable to kill himself because he is weak and disoriented.
3 tn The Hebrew text here is grammatically very awkward (Heb “because all still my life in me”). Whether the broken construct phrase is due to the fact that the alleged speaker is in a confused state of mind as he is on the verge of dying, or whether the MT has sustained corruption in the transmission process, is not entirely clear. The former seems likely, although P. K. McCarter understands the MT to be the result of conflation of two shorter forms of text (P. K. McCarter, II Samuel [AB], 57, n. 9). Early translators also struggled with the verse, apparently choosing to leave part of the Hebrew text untranslated. For example, the Lucianic recension of the LXX lacks “all,” while other witnesses (namely, one medieval Hebrew
4 tn Heb “beloved and dear.”
5 tn Heb “and I will shame myself still more than this and I will be lowly in my eyes.”
6 tn Heb “sought” or “searched for.”
7 tn Heb “and David fasted.”
8 tn The three Hebrew verbs that follow in this verse are perfects with prefixed vav. They may describe repeated past actions or actions which accompanied David’s praying and fasting.
9 tn Or “more than.”
