2 Samuel 19:6

19:6 You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now ¹  that if ²  Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, ³  it would be all right with you.

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ⁴  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ⁵  from the leaders ⁶  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁷  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁸  publicly exposed their corpses ⁹  after ¹⁰  they ¹¹  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

¹ tn Heb “today.”

² tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSam^a, and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוּ (lu, “if”) rather than MT לֹא (lo’, “not”).

³ tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack “today.”

⁴ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

⁵ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

⁶ tn Heb “lords.”

⁷ tn Heb “stolen.”

⁸ 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”).

⁹ tn Heb “had hung them.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “in the day.”

¹¹ tn Heb “Philistines.”