3:34 Your hands 1 were not bound,
and your feet were not put into irons.
You fell the way one falls before criminals.”
All the people 2 wept over him again.
24:17 When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the Lord, “Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep – what have they done? Attack me and my family.” 6
1 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”
2 tc 4QSama lacks the words “all the people.”
1 tn Heb “messenger.”
2 tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”
3 tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”
1 tn Heb “let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.”