2 Samuel 2:23

2:23 But Asahel ¹  refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his ²  spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel ³  collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner. ⁴  Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 3:12

3:12 Then Abner sent messengers ⁶  to David saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement ⁷  with me, and I will do whatever I can ⁸  to cause all Israel to turn to you.”

2 Samuel 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for ⁹  all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 17:25

17:25 Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married ¹⁰  Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 18:33

18:33 (19:1) ¹¹  The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, “My son, Absalom! My son, my son, ¹²  Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!” ¹³ 

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ¹⁴  God will punish me severely, ¹⁵  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “the.” The article functions here as a possessive pronoun.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

⁵ tn Heb “and they stand.”

⁶ tn The Hebrew text adds here, “on his behalf.”

⁷ tn Heb “cut a covenant.” So also in vv. 13, 21.

⁸ tn Heb “and behold, my hand is with you.”

¹¹ tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “come to.”

²¹ sn This marks the beginning of ch. 19 in the Hebrew text. Beginning with 18:33, the verse numbers through 19:43 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 18:33 ET = 19:1 HT, 19:1 ET = 19:2 HT, 19:2 ET = 19:3 HT, etc., through 19:43 ET = 19:44 HT. From 20:1 the versification in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible is again the same.

²² tc One medieval Hebrew ms, some mss of the LXX, and the Vulgate lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography.

²³ tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography.

²⁶ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

²⁷ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”