2 Samuel 23:19

23:19 From ¹  the three he was given honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of the three.

2 Samuel 23:23

23:23 He received honor from ²  the thirty warriors, though he was not one of the three elite warriors. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ³  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ⁴  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ⁵  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁶  might do!”

2 Samuel 13:25

13:25 But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son. We shouldn’t all go. We shouldn’t burden you in that way.” Though Absalom ⁷  pressed ⁸  him, the king ⁹  was not willing to go. Instead, David ¹⁰  blessed him.

[23:19]  ¹ tn Or “more than.”

[23:23]  ² tn Or “more than.”

[6:20]  ³ tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

[6:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “honored.”

[6:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

[13:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:25]  ⁵ tc Here and in v. 27 the translation follows 4QSam^a ויצפר (vayyitspar, “and he pressed”) rather than the MT וַיִּפְרָץ (vayyiprats, “and he broke through”). This emended reading seems also to underlie the translations of the LXX (καὶ ἐβιάσατο, kai ebiasato), the Syriac Peshitta (we’alseh), and Vulgate (cogeret eum).

[13:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.