2 Samuel 4:11

4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept ¹  in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove ²  you from the earth?”

2 Samuel 19:26

19:26 He replied, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me! I ³  said, ‘Let me get my donkey saddled so that I can ride on it and go with the king,’ for I ⁴  am lame.

2 Samuel 21:1

The Gibeonites Demand Revenge

21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. ⁵  The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, ⁶  because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

2 Samuel 21:9

21:9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them ⁷  died ⁸  together; they were put to death during harvest time – during the first days of the beginning ⁹  of the barley harvest.

[4:11]  ¹ tn Heb “on his bed.”

[4:11]  ² tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”

[19:26]  ³ tn Heb “your servant.”

[19:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “your servant.”

[21:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “sought the face of the Lord.”

[21:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”

[21:9]  ⁷ tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shÿva’tam, “the seven of them”) rather than MT שִׁבַעְתִּים (shiva’tim, “seventy”).

[21:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “fell.”

[21:9]  ⁹ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת (bithkhillat, “in the beginning”) rather than MT תְחִלַּת (tÿkhillat, “beginning of”).