2 Samuel 19:35

19:35 I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I ¹  taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I ²  continue to be a burden to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ³  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ⁴  from the leaders ⁵  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁶  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁷  publicly exposed their corpses ⁸  after ⁹  they ¹⁰  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

¹ tn Heb “your servant.”

² tn Heb “your servant.”

³ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

⁴ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

⁵ tn Heb “lords.”

⁶ tn Heb “stolen.”

⁷ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

⁸ tn Heb “had hung them.”

⁹ tn Heb “in the day.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Philistines.”