2 Samuel 4:5
4:5 Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite – Recab and Baanah – went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.
2 Samuel 18:20
18:20 But Joab said to him, “You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today,
1 for the king’s son is dead.”
2 Samuel 21:9
21:9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the
Lord. The seven of them
2 died
3 together; they were put to death during harvest time – during the first days of the beginning
4 of the barley harvest.
1 tn Heb “but this day you will not bear good news.”
1 tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shÿva’tam, “the seven of them”) rather than MT שִׁבַעְתִּים (shiva’tim, “seventy”).
2 tn Heb “fell.”
3 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת (bithkhillat, “in the beginning”) rather than MT תְחִלַּת (tÿkhillat, “beginning of”).