2 Samuel 10:4

10:4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, ¹  and then sent them away.

2 Samuel 14:16

14:16 Yes! ²  The king may ³  listen and deliver his female servant ⁴  from the hand of the man who seeks to remove ⁵  both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’ ⁶ 

2 Samuel 14:21

14:21 Then the king said to Joab, “All right! I ⁷  will do this thing! Go and bring back the young man Absalom!

2 Samuel 15:25

15:25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.

2 Samuel 21:13

21:13 David ⁸  brought the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there; they also gathered up the bones of those who had been executed.

2 Samuel 24:1

David Displeases the Lord by Taking a Census

24:1 The Lord’s anger again raged against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go count Israel and Judah.” ⁹ 

[10:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto their buttocks.”

[14:16]  ² tn Or “for.”

[14:16]  ³ tn Or “will.” The imperfect verbal form can have either an indicative or modal nuance. The use of “perhaps” in v. 15b suggests the latter here.

[14:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “in order to deliver his maid.”

[14:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “destroy.”

[14:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “from the inheritance of God.” The expression refers to the property that was granted to her family line in the division of the land authorized by God.

[14:21]  ³ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have “you” rather than “I.”

[21:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:1]  ⁵ sn The parallel text in 1 Chr 21:1 says, “An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.” The Samuel version gives an underlying theological perspective, while the Chronicler simply describes what happened from a human perspective. The adversary in 1 Chr 21:1 is likely a human enemy, probably a nearby nation whose hostility against Israel pressured David into numbering the people so he could assess his military strength. See the note at 1 Chr 21:1.