2 Samuel 12:2

12:2 The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

2 Samuel 22:36

22:36 You give me ¹  your protective shield; ² 

your willingness to help enables me to prevail. ³ 

2 Samuel 8:8

8:8 From Tebah ⁴  and Berothai, Hadadezer’s cities, King David took a great deal of bronze.

2 Samuel 18:8

18:8 The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

2 Samuel 1:4

1:4 David inquired, “How were things going? ⁵  Tell me!” He replied, “The people fled from the battle and many of them ⁶  fell dead. ⁷  Even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead!”

2 Samuel 12:30

12:30 He took the crown of their king ⁸  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, ⁹  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

2 Samuel 14:11

14:11 She replied, “In that case, ¹⁰  let the king invoke the name of ¹¹  the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head ¹²  will fall to the ground.”

[22:36]  ¹ tn Another option is to translate the prefixed verb with vav consecutive with a past tense, “you gave me.” Several prefixed verbal forms with vav consecutive also appear in vv. 38-44. The present translation understands this section as a description of what generally happened when the author charged into battle, but another option is to understand the section as narrative and translate accordingly.

[22:36]  ² tc Ps 18:35 contains an additional line following this one, which reads “your right hand supports me.” It may be omitted here due to homoioarcton. See the note at Ps 18:35.

[22:36]  ³ tn Heb “your answer makes me great.” David refers to God’s willingness to answer his prayer.

[8:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Betah” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV), but the name should probably be corrected to “Tebah.” See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:8.

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “What was the word?”

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “from the people.”

[1:4]  ³ tn Heb “fell and died.”

[12:30]  ¹ tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”

[12:30]  ² tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.

[14:11]  ¹ tn The words “in that case” are not in the Hebrew text, but may be inferred from the context. They are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarification.

[14:11]  ² tn Heb “let the king remember.”

[14:11]  ³ tn Heb “of your son.”