2 Samuel 3:38

3:38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel?

2 Samuel 13:36

13:36 Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived, wailing and weeping. The king and all his servants wept loudly as well.

2 Samuel 24:20

24:20 When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he went out and bowed to the king with his face to the ground.


tn Heb “a leader and a great one.” The expression is a hendiadys.

tn Heb “and they lifted their voice and wept.”

tn Heb “with a great weeping.”

tn Heb “Araunah.” The name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.

tn Heb “nostrils.”