2 Samuel 15:14

15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, ¹  “Come on! ²  Let’s escape! ³  Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring ⁴  disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” ⁵ 

2 Samuel 16:11

16:11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son, my very own flesh and blood, ⁶  is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the Lord has spoken to him.

2 Samuel 17:8

17:8 Hushai went on to say, “You know your father and his men – they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs. ⁷  Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.

2 Samuel 17:23

17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave ⁸  of his father.

2 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Then King David sent a message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests saying, “Tell the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back to his palace, ⁹  when everything Israel is saying has come to the king’s attention. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 20:1

Sheba’s Rebellion

20:1 Now a wicked man ¹¹  named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, ¹²  happened to be there. He blew the trumpet ¹³  and said,

“We have no share in David;

we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!

Every man go home, ¹⁴  O Israel!”

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ¹⁵  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ¹⁶  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹⁷  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

[15:14]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:14]  ² tn Heb “Arise!”

[15:14]  ³ tn Heb “let’s flee.”

[15:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “thrust.”

[15:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

[16:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “who came out from my entrails.” David’s point is that is his own son, his child whom he himself had fathered, was now wanting to kill him.

[17:8]  ¹¹ tc The LXX (with the exception of the recensions of Origen and Lucian) repeats the description as follows: “Just as a female bear bereft of cubs in a field.”

[17:23]  ¹⁶ tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”

[19:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “his house.”

[19:11]  ²² tc The Hebrew text adds “to his house” (= palace), but the phrase, which also appears earlier in the verse, is probably accidentally repeated here.

[20:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”

[20:1]  ²⁷ tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.

[20:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.

[20:1]  ²⁹ tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.

[20:3]  ³¹ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ³² tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ³³ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”