2 Samuel 3:7

3:7 Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. Ish-bosheth ¹  said to Abner, “Why did you have sexual relations with ²  my father’s concubine?” ³ 

2 Samuel 3:14

3:14 David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand: ⁴  “Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired ⁵  for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

2 Samuel 7:12

7:12 When the time comes for you to die, ⁶  I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, ⁷  and I will establish his kingdom.

2 Samuel 10:4

10:4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, ⁸  and then sent them away.

2 Samuel 11:12

11:12 So David said to Uriah, “Stay here another day. Tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem both that day and the following one. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 13:29

13:29 So Absalom’s servants did to Amnon exactly what Absalom had instructed. Then all the king’s sons got up; each one rode away on his mule and fled.

2 Samuel 23:15

23:15 David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!”

2 Samuel 23:23

23:23 He received honor from ¹⁰  the thirty warriors, though he was not one of the three elite warriors. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

[3:7]  ¹ tc The Hebrew of the MT reads simply “and he said,” with no expressed subject for the verb. It is not likely that the text originally had no expressed subject for this verb, since the antecedent is not immediately clear from the context. We should probably restore to the Hebrew text the name “Ish-bosheth.” See a few medieval Hebrew mss, Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, and Vulgate. Perhaps the name was accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. Note that both the name Ishbosheth and the following preposition אֶל (’el) begin with the letter alef.

[3:7]  ² tn Heb “come to”; KJV, NRSV “gone in to”; NAB “been intimate with”; NIV “sleep with.”

[3:7]  ³ sn This accusation against Abner is a very serious one, since an act of sexual infringement on the king’s harem would probably have been understood as a blatant declaration of aspirations to kingship. As such it was not merely a matter of ethical impropriety but an act of grave political significance as well.

[3:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “to Ish-bosheth son of Saul saying.” To avoid excessive sibilance (especially when read aloud) the translation renders “saying” as “with this demand.”

[3:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “whom I betrothed to myself.”

[7:12]  ⁷ tn Heb, “when your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors.”

[7:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “your seed after you who comes out from your insides.”

[10:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto their buttocks.”

[11:12]  ¹³ tn On the chronology involved here see P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 287.

[23:23]  ¹⁶ tn Or “more than.”