2 Samuel 3:34
Context3:34 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 8:4
Context8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers 3 and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. 4
2 Samuel 11:3
Context11:3 So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger 5 said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”


[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 4QSama lacks the words “all the people.”
[8:4] 3 tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.
[8:4] 4 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”
[11:3] 5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the messenger) has been specified in the translation for clarity.