2 Samuel 3:34

3:34 Your hands ¹  were not bound,

and your feet were not put into irons.

You fell the way one falls before criminals.”

All the people ²  wept over him again.

2 Samuel 12:17

12:17 The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.

2 Samuel 17:2

17:2 When I catch up with ³  him he will be exhausted and worn out. ⁴  I will rout him, and the entire army that is with him will flee. I will kill only the king

2 Samuel 17:19

17:19 His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.

2 Samuel 20:11

20:11 One of Joab’s soldiers who stood over Amasa said, “Whoever is for ⁵  Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!”

2 Samuel 24:20

24:20 When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he ⁶  went out and bowed to the king with his face ⁷  to the ground.

[3:34]  ¹ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”

[3:34]  ² tc 4QSam^a lacks the words “all the people.”

[17:2]  ³ tn Heb “and I will come upon him.”

[17:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “exhausted and slack of hands.”

[20:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “takes delight in.”

[24:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “Araunah.” The name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.

[24:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “nostrils.”