1 tn The antecedent of the pronoun “them” (which is not present in the Hebrew text, but implied) is not entirely clear. Presumably it is the corpses that were hung and not merely the detached hands and feet; cf. NIV “hung the (their NRSV, NLT) bodies”; the alternative is represented by TEV “cut off their hands and feet, which they hung up.”
2 tc 4QSama mistakenly reads “Mephibosheth” here.
3 tc The LXX adds “the son of Ner” by conformity with common phraseology elsewhere.
4 tc Some