2 Samuel 13:13
13:13 How could I ever be rid of my humiliation? And you would be considered one of the fools
1 in Israel! Just
2 speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
2 Samuel 19:22
19:22 But David said, “What do we have in common,
3 you sons of Zeruiah? You are like my enemy today! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don’t you realize that today I am king over Israel?”
2 Samuel 21:4
21:4 The Gibeonites said to him, “We 4 have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, 5 nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel.” David asked, 6 “What then are you asking me to do for you?”
1 tn Heb “and you will be like one of the fools.”
2 tn Heb “Now.”
3 tn Heb “what to me and to you.”
5 tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לָנוּ (lanu, “to us”) rather than the MT לִי (li, “to me”). But for a contrary opinion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 53, 350.
6 tn Heb “house.”
7 tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.