2 Samuel 15:5

15:5 When someone approached to bow before him, Absalom ¹  would extend his hand and embrace him and kiss him.

2 Samuel 23:10

23:10 he stood his ground ²  and fought the Philistines until his hand grew so tired that it ³  seemed stuck to his sword. The Lord gave a great victory on that day. When the army returned to him, the only thing left to do was to plunder the corpses.

2 Samuel 8:3

8:3 David defeated King Hadadezer son of Rehob of Zobah when he came to reestablish ⁴  his authority ⁵  over the Euphrates ⁶  River.

2 Samuel 15:18

15:18 All his servants were leaving with him, ⁷  along with all the Kerethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites – some six hundred men who had come on foot from Gath. They were leaving with ⁸  the king.

2 Samuel 24:16

24:16 When the angel ⁹  extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. ¹⁰  He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” ¹¹  (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)

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 ¹²  against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute ¹³  his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

[15:5]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:10]  ² tn Heb “arose.”

[23:10]  ³ tn Heb “his hand.”

[8:3]  ³ tc The LXX has ἐπιστῆσαι (episthsai, “cause to stand”). See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:3.

[8:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “hand.”

[8:3]  ⁵ tn The MT does not have the name “Euphrates” in the text. It is supplied in the margin (Qere) as one of ten places where the Masoretes believed that something was “to be read although it was not written” in the text as they had received it. The ancient versions (LXX, Syriac Peshitta, Vulgate) include the word. See also the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:3.

[15:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “crossing over near his hand.”

[15:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “crossing over near the face of.”

[24:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “messenger.”

[24:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

[24:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”

[20:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “lifted his hand.”

[20:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look!”