Discovery Box2 Samuel 10:2 
Context10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty 1 to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal 2 to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. 3 When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,
2 Samuel 18:12
Context18:12 The man replied to Joab, “Even if 4 I were receiving 5 a thousand pieces of silver, 6 I would not strike 7 the king’s son! In our very presence 8 the king gave this order to you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’ 9
1 tn Heb “do loyalty.”
2 tn Heb “did loyalty.”
3 tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”
4 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
5 tn Heb “weighing out in my hand.”
6 tn Heb “a thousand [shekels] of silver.” This would have been about 25 pounds (11.4 kg) of silver by weight.
7 tn Heb “extend my hand against.”
8 tn Heb “in our ears.”
9 tc The Hebrew text is very difficult here. The MT reads מִי (mi, “who”), apparently yielding the following sense: “Show care, whoever you might be, for the youth Absalom.” The Syriac Peshitta reads li (“for me”), the Hebrew counterpart of which may also lie behind the LXX rendering μοι (moi, “for me”). This reading seems preferable here, since it restores sense to the passage and most easily explains the rise of the variant.
