2 Samuel 4:10

4:10 when someone told me that Saul was dead – even though he thought he was bringing good news ¹  – I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him!

2 Samuel 13:13

13:13 How could I ever be rid of my humiliation? And you would be considered one of the fools ²  in Israel! Just ³  speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

2 Samuel 14:25

14:25 Now in all Israel everyone acknowledged that there was no man as handsome as Absalom. ⁴  From the sole of his feet to the top of his head he was perfect in appearance. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, ⁶ 

for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,

arranged in all its particulars and secured.

He always delivers me,

and brings all I desire to fruition. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 23:21

23:21 He also killed an impressive-looking Egyptian. ⁸  The Egyptian wielded a spear, while Benaiah attacked ⁹  him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

[4:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and he was like a bearer of good news in his eyes.”

[13:13]  ² tn Heb “and you will be like one of the fools.”

[13:13]  ³ tn Heb “Now.”

[14:25]  ³ tn Heb “Like Absalom there was not a handsome man in all Israel to boast exceedingly.”

[14:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “there was not in him a blemish.”

[23:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

[23:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”

[23:21]  ⁵ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading אִישׁ (’ish, “man”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who”).

[23:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he went down to.”