2 Samuel 3:2
Context3:2 Now sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, born to Ahinoam the Jezreelite.
2 Samuel 5:13
Context5:13 David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.
2 Samuel 14:6
Context14:6 Your servant 1 has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.
2 Samuel 14:27
Context14:27 Absalom had 2 three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a very attractive woman. 3
2 Samuel 9:10
Context9:10 You will cultivate 4 the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce 5 and it will be 6 food for your master’s grandson to eat. 7 But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)


[14:6] 1 tn Here and elsewhere (vv. 7, 12, 15a, 17, 19) the woman uses a term which suggests a lower level female servant. She uses the term to express her humility before the king. However, she uses a different term in vv. 15b-16. See the note at v. 15 for a discussion of the rhetorical purpose of this switch in terminology.
[14:27] 1 tn Heb “and there were born.”
[14:27] 2 tc The LXX adds here the following words: “And she became a wife to Rehoboam the son of Solomon and bore to him Abia.”
[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.