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 8:4

8:4 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

11:3 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 4QSam^a 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.