10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty 1 to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal 2 to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. 3 When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,
2 Samuel 17:25
17:25 Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married 4 Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)
1 tnHeb “do loyalty.”
2 tnHeb “did loyalty.”
3 tnHeb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”