2 Samuel 2:11

2:11 David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah for seven and a half years. ¹ 

2 Samuel 13:23

Absalom Has Amnon Put to Death

13:23 Two years later Absalom’s sheepshearers were in Baal Hazor, ²  near Ephraim. Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

2 Samuel 15:7

15:7 After four ³  years Absalom said to the king, “Let me go and repay my vow that I made to the Lord while I was in Hebron.

2 Samuel 19:32

19:32 But Barzillai was very old – eighty years old, in fact – and he had taken care of the king when he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich ⁴  man.

[2:11]  ¹ tn Heb “And the number of the days in which David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.”

[13:23]  ² map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[15:7]  ³ tc The MT has here “forty,” but this is presumably a scribal error for “four.” The context will not tolerate a period of forty years prior to the rebellion of Absalom. The Lucianic Greek recension (τέσσαρα ἔτη, tessara ete), the Syriac Peshitta (’arba’ sanin), and Vulgate (post quattuor autem annos) in fact have the expected reading “four years.” Most English translations follow the versions in reading “four” here, although some (e.g. KJV, ASV, NASB, NKJV), following the MT, read “forty.”

[19:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “great.”