2 Samuel 9:7

9:7 David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. You will be a regular guest at my table.” 1 

2 Samuel 10:2

10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty 2  to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal 3  to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. 4  When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The Gibeonites said to him, “We 5  have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, 6  nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel.” David asked, 7  “What then are you asking me to do for you?”

1 tn Heb “and you will eat food over my table continually.”

2 tn Heb “do loyalty.”

3 tn Heb “did loyalty.”

4 tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”

3 tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לָנוּ (lanu, “to us”) rather than the MT לִי (li, “to me”). But for a contrary opinion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 53, 350.

4 tn Heb “house.”

5 tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.