2 Samuel 2:15

2:15 So they got up and crossed over by number: twelve belonging to Benjamin and to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David.

2 Samuel 8:13

8:13 David became famous ¹  when he returned from defeating the Arameans ²  in the Valley of Salt, he defeated ³  18,000 in all.

2 Samuel 2:30

2:30 Now Joab returned from chasing Abner and assembled all the people. Nineteen of David’s soldiers were missing, in addition to Asahel.

2 Samuel 15:16

15:16 So the king and all the members of his royal court ⁴  set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines ⁵  to attend to the palace.

2 Samuel 17:1

The Death of Ahithophel

17:1 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me pick out twelve thousand men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night.

2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ⁶  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ⁷  and it will be ⁸  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ⁹  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 19:17

19:17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant ¹⁰  of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed ¹¹  the Jordan within sight of the king.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ¹²  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ¹³  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹⁴  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 10:6

10:6 When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, ¹⁵  they ¹⁶  sent and hired 20,000 foot soldiers from Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah, ¹⁷  in addition to 1,000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob. ¹⁸ 

2 Samuel 19:43

19:43 The men of Israel replied to the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and we have a greater claim on David than you do! Why do you want ¹⁹  to curse us? Weren’t we the first to suggest bringing back our king?” But the comments of the men of Judah were more severe than those of the men of Israel.

[8:13]  ¹ tn Heb “made a name.”

[8:13]  ² tn So NASB, NCV; NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “Edomites” (see the note on “Aram” in v. 12).

[8:13]  ³ tn The words “he defeated” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and all his house.”

[15:16]  ² tn Heb “women, concubines.”

[9:10]  ¹ tn Heb “work.”

[9:10]  ² tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

[9:10]  ³ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

[9:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

[19:17]  ¹ tn Heb “youth.”

[19:17]  ² tn Heb “rushed into.”

[20:3]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ² tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ³ 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.”

[10:6]  ¹ tn Heb “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”

[10:6]  ² tn Heb “the Ammonites.”

[10:6]  ³ tn Or “Arameans of Beth Rehob and Arameans of Zobah.”

[10:6]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps “the men of Tob.” The ancient versions (the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) understand the name to be “Ish-tob.” It is possible that “Ish” is dittographic and that we should read simply “Tob,” a reading adopted by a number of recent English versions.

[19:43]  ¹ tn The translation understands the verb in a desiderative sense, indicating the desire but not necessarily the completed action of the party in question. It is possible, however, that the verb should be given the more common sense of accomplished action, in which case it means here “Why have you cursed us?”