2 Samuel 11:1
Context11:1 In the spring of the year, at the time when kings 1 normally conduct wars, 2 David sent out Joab with his officers 3 and the entire Israelite army. 4 They defeated the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed behind in Jerusalem. 5
2 Samuel 15:30
Context15:30 As David was going up the Mount of Olives, he was weeping as he went; his head was covered and his feet were bare. All the people who were with him also had their heads covered and were weeping as they went up.
2 Samuel 16:1
Context16:1 When David had gone a short way beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a couple of donkeys that were saddled, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred raisin cakes, a hundred baskets of summer fruit, 6 and a container of wine.
2 Samuel 18:24
Context18:24 Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, 7 and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.


[11:1] 1 tc Codex Leningrad (B19A), on which BHS is based, has here “messengers” (הַמַּלְאכִים, hammal’khim), probably as the result of contamination from the occurrence of that word in v. 4. The present translation follows most Hebrew
[11:1] 3 tn Heb “and his servants with him.”
[11:1] 5 tn The disjunctive clause contrasts David’s inactivity with the army’s activity.