5:17 When the Philistines heard that David had been designated 3 king over Israel, they all 4 went up to search for David. When David heard about it, he went down to the fortress.
17:20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men 6 searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. 7
21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 8 The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 9 because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to 10 them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
1 tn Heb “on his bed.”
2 tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”
3 tn Heb “anointed.”
4 tn Heb “all the Philistines.”
5 tn Heb “who came out from my entrails.” David’s point is that is his own son, his child whom he himself had fathered, was now wanting to kill him.
7 tn Heb “they”; the referents (Absalom’s men) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
9 tn Heb “sought the face of the
10 tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”
11 tn Heb “swore an oath to.”