2 Samuel 12:30

12:30 He took the crown of their king ¹  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, ²  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

2 Samuel 12:1

Nathan the Prophet Confronts David

12:1 So the Lord sent Nathan ³  to David. When he came to David, ⁴  Nathan ⁵  said, ⁶  “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 20:2

20:2 So all the men of Israel deserted ⁷  David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River ⁸  to Jerusalem. ⁹ 

Hebrews 2:9

2:9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, ¹⁰  now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, ¹¹  so that by God’s grace he would experience ¹²  death on behalf of everyone.

Revelation 19:12

19:12 His eyes are like a fiery ¹³  flame and there are many diadem crowns ¹⁴  on his head. He has ¹⁵  a name written ¹⁶  that no one knows except himself.

¹ tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”

² tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.

³ tc A few medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta add “the prophet.” The words are included in a few modern English version (e.g., TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁴ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn The Hebrew text repeats “to him.”

⁷ tn Heb “went up from after.”

⁸ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁰ tn Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”

¹¹ tn Grk “because of the suffering of death.”

¹² tn Grk “would taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).

¹³ tn The genitive noun πυρός (puros) has been translated as an attributive genitive (see also Rev 1:14).

¹⁴ tn For the translation of διάδημα (diadhma) as “diadem crown” see L&N 6.196.

¹⁵ tn Grk “head, having.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

¹⁶ tn Although many translations supply a prepositional phrase to specify what the name was written on (“upon Him,” NASB; “on him,” NIV), there is no location for the name specified in the Greek text.