2 Samuel 3:22

Abner Is Killed

3:22 Now David’s soldiers ¹  and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David ²  had sent him away and he had left in peace.

2 Samuel 12:30

12:30 He took the crown of their king ³  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, ⁴  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

¹ tn Heb “And look, the servants of David.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ 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.”

⁴ 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.