2 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Then Abner spoke privately ¹  with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately ²  of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. ³ 

2 Samuel 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ⁴  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 16:21

16:21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Have sex with ⁵  your father’s concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you.” ⁶ 

2 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa ⁷  stopped, the man ⁸  pulled him ⁹  away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

[3:19]  ¹ tn Heb “into the ears of.”

[3:19]  ² tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”

[3:19]  ³ tn Heb “all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin.”

[3:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[16:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “go to”; NAB “have (+ sexual NCV) relations with”; TEV “have intercourse with”; NLT “Go and sleep with.”

[16:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

[20:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man who spoke up in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:12]  ¹² tn Heb “Amasa.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.