2 Samuel 1:5-6

1:5 David said to the young man ¹  who was telling him this, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ²  1:6 The young man who was telling him this ³  said, “I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.

2 Samuel 1:13

1:13 David said to the young man who told this to him, “Where are you from?” He replied, “I am an Amalekite, the son of a resident foreigner.” ⁴ 

2 Samuel 9:9

9:9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s attendant, and said to him, “Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master’s grandson.

2 Samuel 12:16

12:16 Then David prayed to ⁵  God for the child and fasted. ⁶  He would even ⁷  go and spend the night lying on the ground.

2 Samuel 13:17

13:17 He called his personal attendant and said to him, “Take this woman out of my sight ⁸  and lock the door behind her!”

2 Samuel 13:29

13:29 So Absalom’s servants did to Amnon exactly what Absalom had instructed. Then all the king’s sons got up; each one rode away on his mule and fled.

2 Samuel 13:34

13:34 In the meantime Absalom fled. When the servant who was the watchman looked up, he saw many people coming from the west ⁹  on a road beside the hill.

2 Samuel 14:21

14:21 Then the king said to Joab, “All right! I ¹⁰  will do this thing! Go and bring back the young man Absalom!

2 Samuel 17:18

17:18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.

2 Samuel 20:11

20:11 One of Joab’s soldiers who stood over Amasa said, “Whoever is for ¹¹  Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!”

[1:5]  ¹ tn In v. 2 he is called simply a “man.” The word used here in v. 5 (so also in vv. 6, 13, 15), though usually referring to a young man or servant, may in this context designate a “fighting” man, i.e., a soldier.

[1:5]  ² tc Instead of the MT “who was recounting this to him, ‘How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?’” the Syriac Peshitta reads “declare to me how Saul and his son Jonathan died.”

[1:6]  ³ tc The Syriac Peshitta and one ms of the LXX lack the words “who was telling him this” of the MT.

[1:13]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew word used here refers to a foreigner whose social standing was something less than that of native residents of the land, but something more than that of a nonresident alien who was merely passing through.

[12:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “sought” or “searched for.”

[12:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “and David fasted.”

[12:16]  ⁹ tn The three Hebrew verbs that follow in this verse are perfects with prefixed vav. They may describe repeated past actions or actions which accompanied David’s praying and fasting.

[13:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “send this [one] from upon me to the outside.”

[13:34]  ¹¹ tn Heb “behind him.”

[14:21]  ¹³ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have “you” rather than “I.”

[20:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “takes delight in.”