3:19 Then Abner spoke privately 1 with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately 2 of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. 3
21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything 4 that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers 5 for the land.
1 tn Heb “into the ears of.”
2 tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”
3 tn Heb “all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin.”
4 tc Many medieval Hebrew
5 tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).