2 Samuel 18:13

18:13 If I had acted at risk of my own life ¹  – and nothing is hidden from the king! – you would have abandoned me.” ² 

2 Samuel 2:21

2:21 Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right or to your left. Capture one of the soldiers ³  and take his equipment for yourself!” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

2 Samuel 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ⁴  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 17:9

17:9 At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, ⁵  whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’

¹ tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and a number of the ancient versions in reading בְנַפְשִׁי (vÿnafshi, “against my life”) rather than the MT בְנַפְשׁוֹ (vÿnafsho, “against his life”).

² tn Heb “stood aloof.”

³ tn Heb “young men.” So also elsewhere.

⁵ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

⁷ tn Heb “that he falls on them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] at the first [encounter]; or “that some of them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] fall at the first [encounter].”