2 Samuel 3:14

3:14 David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand: ¹  “Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired ²  for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

2 Samuel 6:19

6:19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, ³  both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, ⁴  and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 11:21

11:21 Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone ⁶  down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?’ just say to him, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

2 Samuel 11:27

11:27 When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. ⁷  She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the Lord. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 12:8

12:8 I gave you your master’s house, and put your master’s wives into your arms. ⁹  I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all that somehow seems insignificant, I would have given you so much more as well!

2 Samuel 19:5

19:5 So Joab visited ¹⁰  the king at his home. He said, “Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day, as well as the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your concubines.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ¹¹  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ¹²  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹³  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 20:22

20:22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab ¹⁴  blew the trumpet, and his men ¹⁵  dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. ¹⁶  Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

¹ tn Heb “to Ish-bosheth son of Saul saying.” To avoid excessive sibilance (especially when read aloud) the translation renders “saying” as “with this demand.”

² tn Heb “whom I betrothed to myself.”

³ tn Heb “to all the people, to all the throng of Israel.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew word used here אֶשְׁפָּר (’espar) is found in the OT only here and in the parallel passage found in 1 Chr 16:3. Its exact meaning is uncertain, although the context indicates that it was a food of some sort (cf. KJV “a good piece of flesh”; NRSV “a portion of meat”). The translation adopted here (“date cake”) follows the lead of the Greek translations of the LXX, Aquila, and Symmachus (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

⁵ tn Heb “and all the people went, each to his house.”

⁵ sn The upper millstone (Heb “millstone of riding”) refers to the heavy circular stone that was commonly rolled over a circular base in order to crush and grind such things as olives.

⁷ tn Heb “David sent and gathered her to his house.”

⁸ tn Heb “and the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of the Lord.” Note the verbal connection with v. 25. Though David did not regard the matter as evil, the Lord certainly did.

⁹ tn Heb “and the wives of your lord into your chest [or “lap”].” The words “I put” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

¹¹ tn Heb “came to.”

¹³ tn Heb “house.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (Joab’s men) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn Heb “his tents.”