2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house,¹ Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him.² She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished³ himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool⁴ might do!”

2 Samuel 19:20

19:20 For I, your servant,⁵ know that I sinned, and I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”

2 Samuel 19:24

19:24 Now Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson,⁶ came down to meet the king. From the day the king had left until the day he safely⁷ returned, Mephibosheth⁸ had not cared for his feet⁹ nor trimmed¹⁰ his mustache nor washed his clothes.

¹tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

²tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³tn Heb “honored.”

⁴tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

⁵tn The Hebrew text has simply “your servant.”

⁹tn Heb “son.”

¹⁰tn Heb “in peace.” So also in v. 31.

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

¹²tn Heb “done his feet.”

¹³tn Heb “done.”