1 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:24 says David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for “fifty pieces of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.
2 tc The translation follows the MT, which reads “of their king”; the LXX and Vulgate read “of Milcom” (cf. 1 Kgs 11:5). Milcom, also known as Molech, was the god of the Ammonites.
3 tn Heb “and it was on the head of David.”
4 sn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.
3 tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the
4 tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.
5 tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”