3:22 Now David’s soldiers 3 and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David 4 had sent him away and he had left in peace.
1 tn Heb “and I will shame myself still more than this and I will be lowly in my eyes.”
2 tn Heb “and you must send by their hand to me every word which you hear.” Both of the second person verb forms are plural with Zadok, Abiathar, and Hushai being the understood subjects.
3 tn Heb “And look, the servants of David.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.