2 Samuel 2:26

2:26 Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”

2 Samuel 14:33

14:33 So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king ¹  summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom ²  bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him. ³ 

2 Samuel 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his ⁴  mule, it ⁵  went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, ⁶  while the mule he had been riding kept going.

2 Samuel 18:26

18:26 Then the watchman saw another man running. The watchman called out to the gatekeeper, “There is another man running by himself.” The king said, “This one also is bringing good news.”

2 Samuel 18:28

18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!” ⁷  He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated ⁸  the men who opposed ⁹  my lord the king!”

2 Samuel 21:2

21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to ¹⁰  them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

[14:33]  ¹ tn Heb “he.” Joab, acting on behalf of the king, may be the implied subject.

[14:33]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:33]  ³ tn Heb “Absalom.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.

[18:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the.”

[18:9]  ² tn Heb “the donkey.”

[18:9]  ³ tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”

[18:28]  ¹ tn Heb “Peace.”

[18:28]  ² tn Heb “delivered over.”

[18:28]  ³ tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”

[21:2]  ¹ tn Heb “swore an oath to.”