2 Samuel 15:23

15:23 All the land was weeping loudly ¹  as all these people were leaving. ²  As the king was crossing over the Kidron Valley, all the people were leaving ³  on the road that leads to the desert.

2 Samuel 16:1

David Receives Gifts from Ziba

16:1 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, ⁴  and a container of wine.

2 Samuel 17:22

17:22 So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. ⁵  By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.

2 Samuel 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his ⁶  mule, it ⁷  went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, ⁸  while the mule he had been riding kept going.

[15:23]  ¹ tn Heb “with a great voice.”

[15:23]  ² tn Heb “crossing over.”

[15:23]  ³ tn Heb “crossing near the face of.”

[16:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “a hundred summer fruit.”

[17:22]  ⁷ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text here or in v. 24, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[18:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the.”

[18:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the donkey.”

[18:9]  ¹² tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”