2 Samuel 10:2

10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ¹  to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal ²  to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. ³  When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ⁴  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ⁵  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ⁶  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 24:13

24:13 Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven ⁷  years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide ⁸  what I should tell the one who sent me.”

[10:2]  ¹ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[10:2]  ² tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[10:2]  ³ tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”

[20:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”

[24:13]  ⁷ tc The LXX has here “three” rather than “seven,” and is followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT. See 1 Chr 21:12.

[24:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “now know and see.”