2 Samuel 21:8

21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab ¹  whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 4:4

4:4 Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. ²  Mephibosheth was his name.

2 Samuel 24:9

24:9 Joab reported the number of warriors ³  to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.

2 Samuel 12:30

12:30 He took the crown of their king ⁴  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, ⁵  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

2 Samuel 14:26

14:26 When he would shave his head – at the end of every year he used to shave his head, for it grew too long ⁶  and he would shave it – he used to weigh the hair of his head at three pounds ⁷  according to the king’s weight.

¹ tc The MT reads “Michal” here, but two Hebrew manuscripts read “Merab,” along with some LXX manuscripts. Cf. 1 Sam 18:19.

² tn Heb “and was lame.”

³ tn Heb “and Joab gave the number of the numbering of the people.”

⁴ tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”

⁵ tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.

⁵ tn Heb “for it was heavy upon him.”

⁶ tn Heb “two hundred shekels.” The modern equivalent would be about three pounds (1.4 kg).