2 Samuel 1:5

David said to the young man ¹  who was telling him this, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ² 

Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

So David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

"How do you know that Saul and Jonathan are dead?" David demanded.

David pressed the young soldier for details: "How do you know for sure that Saul and Jonathan are dead?"

And David said to the young man who gave him the news, Why are you certain that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?

Then David asked the young man who was reporting to him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan died?"

So David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"

David said to the young man ¹  who was telling him this, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ² 

¹ tn In v. 2 he is called simply a “man.” The word used here in v. 5 (so also in vv. 6, 13, 15), though usually referring to a young man or servant, may in this context designate a “fighting” man, i.e., a soldier.

² tc Instead of the MT “who was recounting this to him, ‘How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?’” the Syriac Peshitta reads “declare to me how Saul and his son Jonathan died.”