2 Samuel 3:14

3:14 David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand: ¹  “Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired ²  for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

2 Samuel 4:10

4:10 when someone told me that Saul was dead – even though he thought he was bringing good news ³  – I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him!

2 Samuel 12:11

12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ⁴  from inside your own household! ⁵  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ⁶  He will have sexual relations with ⁷  your wives in broad daylight! ⁸ 

2 Samuel 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for ⁹  all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his ¹⁰  mule, it ¹¹  went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, ¹²  while the mule he had been riding kept going.

2 Samuel 18:11

18:11 Joab replied to the man who was telling him this, “What! You saw this? Why didn’t you strike him down right on the spot? ¹³  I would have given you ten pieces of silver ¹⁴  and a commemorative belt!” ¹⁵ 

2 Samuel 18:33

18:33 (19:1) ¹⁶  The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, “My son, Absalom! My son, my son, ¹⁷  Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!” ¹⁸ 

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ¹⁹  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ²⁰  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ²¹  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 21:9-10

21:9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them ²²  died ²³  together; they were put to death during harvest time – during the first days of the beginning ²⁴  of the barley harvest.

21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, ²⁵  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed ²⁶  on them by day, nor the wild animals ²⁷  by night.

2 Samuel 24:9

24:9 Joab reported the number of warriors ²⁸  to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.

[3:14]  ¹ tn Heb “to Ish-bosheth son of Saul saying.” To avoid excessive sibilance (especially when read aloud) the translation renders “saying” as “with this demand.”

[3:14]  ² tn Heb “whom I betrothed to myself.”

[4:10]  ³ tn Heb “and he was like a bearer of good news in his eyes.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Or “friend.”

[12:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

[12:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

[16:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

[18:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “the.”

[18:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the donkey.”

[18:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”

[18:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Why did you not strike him down there to the ground.”

[18:11]  ¹² tn Heb “ten [shekels] of silver.” This would have been about 4 ounces (114 grams) of silver by weight.

[18:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “and a girdle” (so KJV); NIV “a warrior’s belt”; CEV “a special belt”; NLT “a hero’s belt.”

[18:33]  ¹³ sn This marks the beginning of ch. 19 in the Hebrew text. Beginning with 18:33, the verse numbers through 19:43 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 18:33 ET = 19:1 HT, 19:1 ET = 19:2 HT, 19:2 ET = 19:3 HT, etc., through 19:43 ET = 19:44 HT. From 20:1 the versification in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible is again the same.

[18:33]  ¹⁴ tc One medieval Hebrew ms, some mss of the LXX, and the Vulgate lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography.

[18:33]  ¹⁵ tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography.

[20:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ¹⁷ 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.”

[21:9]  ¹⁷ tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shÿva’tam, “the seven of them”) rather than MT שִׁבַעְתִּים (shiva’tim, “seventy”).

[21:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “fell.”

[21:9]  ¹⁹ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת (bithkhillat, “in the beginning”) rather than MT תְחִלַּת (tÿkhillat, “beginning of”).

[21:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”

[21:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “rest.”

[21:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”

[24:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “and Joab gave the number of the numbering of the people.”