2 Samuel 19:13
Context19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? 1 God will punish me severely, 2 if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
2 Samuel 21:14
Context21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything 3 that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers 4 for the land.


[19:13] 1 tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”
[19:13] 2 tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”
[21:14] 3 tc Many medieval Hebrew
[21:14] 4 tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).