2 Samuel 14:7

14:7 Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying, ‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death ¹  of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, ²  leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”

2 Samuel 19:35

19:35 I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I ³  taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I ⁴  continue to be a burden to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ⁵  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ⁶  from the leaders ⁷  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁸  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁹  publicly exposed their corpses ¹⁰  after ¹¹  they ¹²  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

[14:7]  ¹ tn Heb “in exchange for the life.” The Hebrew preposition בְּ (bÿ, “in”) here is the so-called bet pretii, or bet (בְּ) of price, defining the value attached to someone or something.

[14:7]  ² sn My remaining coal is here metaphorical language, describing the one remaining son as her only source of lingering hope for continuing the family line.

[19:35]  ³ tn Heb “your servant.”

[19:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “your servant.”

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

[21:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

[21:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “lords.”

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “stolen.”

[21:12]  ⁹ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

[21:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “had hung them.”

[21:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the day.”

[21:12]  ¹² tn Heb “Philistines.”