2 Samuel 3:8

3:8 These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating ¹  loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives ²  and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today! ³ 

2 Samuel 8:10

8:10 he ⁴  sent his son Joram ⁵  to King David to extend his best wishes ⁶  and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Toi had been at war with Hadadezer. ⁷  He brought with him various items made of silver, gold, and bronze. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 11:11

11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations ⁹  with my wife? As surely as you are alive, ¹⁰  I will not do this thing!”

2 Samuel 13:32

13:32 Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, said, “My lord should not say, ‘They have killed all the young men who are the king’s sons.’ For only Amnon is dead. This is what Absalom has talked about ¹¹  from the day that Amnon ¹²  humiliated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Now Absalom used to get up early and stand beside the road that led to the city gate. Whenever anyone came by who had a complaint to bring to the king for arbitration, Absalom would call out to him, “What city are you from?” The person would answer, “I, your servant, ¹³  am from one of the tribes of Israel.”

2 Samuel 18:12

18:12 The man replied to Joab, “Even if ¹⁴  I were receiving ¹⁵  a thousand pieces of silver, ¹⁶  I would not strike ¹⁷  the king’s son! In our very presence ¹⁸  the king gave this order to you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’ ¹⁹ 

2 Samuel 19:7

19:7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to ²⁰  your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”

¹ tn Heb “I do.”

² tn Heb “brothers.”

³ tn Heb “and you have laid upon me the guilt of the woman today.”

⁴ tn Heb “Toi.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn The name appears as “Hadoram” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:10.

⁶ tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

⁷ tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.”

⁸ tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”

⁷ tn Heb “and lay.”

⁸ tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “it was placed on the mouth of Absalom.”

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amnon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “your servant.” So also in vv. 8, 15, 21.

¹⁶ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וְלוּ (vÿlu, “and if”) rather than MT וְלֹא (vÿlo’, “and not”).

¹⁷ tn Heb “weighing out in my hand.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “a thousand [shekels] of silver.” This would have been about 25 pounds (11.4 kg) of silver by weight.

¹⁹ tn Heb “extend my hand against.”

²⁰ tn Heb “in our ears.”

²¹ tc The Hebrew text is very difficult here. The MT reads מִי (mi, “who”), apparently yielding the following sense: “Show care, whoever you might be, for the youth Absalom.” The Syriac Peshitta reads li (“for me”), the Hebrew counterpart of which may also lie behind the LXX rendering μοι (moi, “for me”). This reading seems preferable here, since it restores sense to the passage and most easily explains the rise of the variant.

¹⁹ tn Heb “and speak to the heart of.”