Discovery Box2 Samuel 3:22 
Context3:22 Now David’s soldiers 1 and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David 2 had sent him away and he had left in peace.
2 Samuel 7:23
Context7:23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation 3 on the earth? Their God 4 went 5 to claim 6 a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, 7 before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods. 8
2 Samuel 12:30
Context12:30 He took the crown of their king 9 from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, 10 and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.
2 Samuel 18:29
Context18:29 The king replied, “How is the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz replied, “I saw a great deal of confusion when Joab was sending the king’s servant and me, your servant, but I don’t know what it was all about.”
2 Samuel 23:10
Context23:10 he stood his ground 11 and fought the Philistines until his hand grew so tired that it 12 seemed stuck to his sword. The Lord gave a great victory on that day. When the army returned to him, the only thing left to do was to plunder the corpses.
1 tn Heb “And look, the servants of David.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “a nation, one.”
4 tn Heb “whose God” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.
6 tn Heb “redeem.”
7 tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.”
8 tn Heb “from Egypt, nations and their gods.” The LXX has “nations and tents,” which reflects a mistaken metathesis of letters in אֶלֹהָיו (e’lohav, “its gods”) and אֹהָלָיו (’ohalav, “its tents”).
9 tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”
10 tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.
11 tn Heb “arose.”
12 tn Heb “his hand.”
