2 Samuel 3:37

3:37 All the people and all Israel realized on that day that the killing of Abner son of Ner was not done at the king’s instigation. ¹ 

2 Samuel 8:14

8:14 He placed garrisons throughout Edom, ²  and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. The Lord protected David wherever he campaigned.

2 Samuel 20:14

20:14 Sheba ³  traveled through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of ⁴  Beth Maacah and all the Berite region. When they had assembled, ⁵  they too joined him.

[3:37]  ¹ tn Heb “from the king.”

[8:14]  ² tc The MT is repetitious here: “He placed in Edom garrisons; in all Edom he placed garrisons.” The Vulgate lacks “in all Edom”; most of the Greek tradition (with the exception of the Lucianic recension and the recension of Origen) and the Syriac Peshitta lack “he placed garrisons.” The MT reading appears here to be the result of a conflation of variant readings.

[20:14]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sheba) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:14]  ⁴ tc In keeping with the form of the name in v. 15, the translation deletes the “and” found in the MT.

[20:14]  ⁵ tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading וַיִּקָּהֲלוּ (vayyiqqahalu, “and they were gathered together”) rather than the Kethib of the MT וַיִּקְלֻהוּ (vayyiqluhu, “and they cursed him”). The Kethib is the result of metathesis.