2 Samuel 1:11

1:11 David then grabbed his own clothes ¹  and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.

2 Samuel 13:11

13:11 As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her, “Come on! Get in bed with me, ²  my sister!”

2 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But he refused to listen to her. ³  He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his ⁵  mule, it ⁶  went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, ⁷  while the mule he had been riding kept going.

2 Samuel 24:4

24:4 But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of ⁸  Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king’s presence in order to muster the Israelite army.

[1:11]  ¹ tc The present translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “his garments,” rather than “his garment,” the reading of the Kethib.

[13:11]  ² tn Heb “lie with me” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV); NCV “come and have sexual relations with me.”

[13:14]  ³ tn Heb “to her voice.”

[13:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he humiliated her and lay with her.”

[18:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “the.”

[18:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “the donkey.”

[18:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”

[24:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the word of the king was stronger than.”