2 Samuel 11:21

11:21 Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone ¹  down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?’ just say to him, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

2 Samuel 11:24

11:24 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall and some of the king’s soldiers ²  died. Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”

2 Samuel 11:20

11:20 if the king becomes angry and asks you, ‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the wall?

2 Samuel 18:24

18:24 Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, ³  and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.

2 Samuel 20:15

20:15 So Joab’s men ⁴  came and laid siege against him in Abel of Beth Maacah. They prepared a siege ramp outside the city which stood against its outer rampart. As all of Joab’s soldiers were trying to break through ⁵  the wall so that it would collapse,

2 Samuel 20:21

20:21 That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled ⁶  against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute ⁷  his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

[11:21]  ¹ sn The upper millstone (Heb “millstone of riding”) refers to the heavy circular stone that was commonly rolled over a circular base in order to crush and grind such things as olives.

[11:24]  ² tc The translation follows the Qere (“your servants”) rather than the Kethib (“your servant”).

[18:24]  ³ tn Heb “the two gates.”

[20:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “they.” The following context makes it clear that this refers to Joab and his army.

[20:15]  ⁵ tc The LXX has here ἐνοοῦσαν (enoousan, “were devising”), which apparently presupposes the Hebrew word מַחֲשָׁבִים (makhashavim) rather than the MT מַשְׁחִיתִם (mashkhitim, “were destroying”). With a number of other scholars Driver thinks that the Greek variant may preserve the original reading, but this seems to be an unnecessary conclusion (but see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 346).

[20:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “lifted his hand.”

[20:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “Look!”