2 Samuel 8:7

8:7 David took the golden shields that belonged to Hadadezer’s servants and brought them to Jerusalem. ¹ 

2 Samuel 8:18

8:18 Benaiah son of Jehoida supervised ²  the Kerithites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests. ³ 

2 Samuel 10:5

10:5 Messengers ⁴  told David what had happened, ⁵  so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho ⁶  until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.”

2 Samuel 2:10

2:10 Ish-bosheth son of Saul was forty years old when he began to rule over Israel. He ruled two years. However, the people ⁷  of Judah followed David.

2 Samuel 4:2

4:2 Now Saul’s son ⁸  had two men who were in charge of raiding units; one was named Baanah and the other Recab. They were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, who was a Benjaminite. (Beeroth is regarded as belonging to Benjamin,

2 Samuel 12:1

Nathan the Prophet Confronts David

12:1 So the Lord sent Nathan ⁹  to David. When he came to David, ¹⁰  Nathan ¹¹  said, ¹²  “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 8:10

8:10 he ¹³  sent his son Joram ¹⁴  to King David to extend his best wishes ¹⁵  and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Toi had been at war with Hadadezer. ¹⁶  He brought with him various items made of silver, gold, and bronze. ¹⁷ 

¹ tc The LXX includes seventeen words (in Greek) at the end of v. 7 that are not found in the MT. The LXX addition is as follows: “And Sousakim king of Egypt took them when he came up to Jerusalem in the days of Rehoboam the son of Solomon.” This Greek reading now finds Hebrew support in 4QSam^a. For a reconstruction of this poorly preserved Qumran text see E. C. Ulrich, Jr., The Qumran Text of Samuel and Josephus (HSM), 45-48.

² tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta, Targum, and Vulgate in reading “over,” rather than the simple conjunction that appears in MT. See also the parallel passage in 1 Chr 18:17.

³ sn That David’s sons could have been priests, in light of the fact that they were not of the priestly lineage, is strange. One must assume either (1) that the word “priest” (כֹּהֵן, kohen) during this period of time could be used in a broader sense of “chief ruler” (KJV); “chief minister” (ASV, NASB), or “royal adviser” (NIV), perhaps based on the parallel passage in 1 Chr 18:17 which has “the king’s leading officials”, or (2) that in David’s day members of the king’s family could function as a special category of “priests” (cf. NLT “priestly leaders”). The latter option seems to be the more straightforward way of understanding the word in 2 Sam 8:18.

³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn The words “what had happened” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

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⁴ tn Heb “house.”

⁵ tc The present translation, “Saul’s son had two men,” is based on the reading “to the son of Saul,” rather than the MT’s “the son of Saul.” The context requires the preposition to indicate the family relationship.

⁶ tc A few medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta add “the prophet.” The words are included in a few modern English version (e.g., TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn The Hebrew text repeats “to him.”

⁷ tn Heb “Toi.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn The name appears as “Hadoram” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:10.

⁹ tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”