Discovery Box2 Samuel 3:35 
Context3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely 1 if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”
2 Samuel 6:19
Context6:19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, 2 both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, 3 and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home. 4
1 tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”
2 tn Heb “to all the people, to all the throng of Israel.”
3 tn The Hebrew word used here אֶשְׁפָּר (’espar) is found in the OT only here and in the parallel passage found in 1 Chr 16:3. Its exact meaning is uncertain, although the context indicates that it was a food of some sort (cf. KJV “a good piece of flesh”; NRSV “a portion of meat”). The translation adopted here (“date cake”) follows the lead of the Greek translations of the LXX, Aquila, and Symmachus (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).
4 tn Heb “and all the people went, each to his house.”
