2 Samuel 4:12

4:12 So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them ¹  near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth ²  and buried it in the tomb of Abner ³  in Hebron. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 6:2

6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled ⁵  to ⁶  Baalah ⁷  in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name ⁸  of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ⁹  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ¹⁰  and it will be ¹¹  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ¹²  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 12:18

12:18 On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said, “While the child was still alive he would not listen to us ¹³  when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!” ¹⁴ 

2 Samuel 17:23

17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave ¹⁵  of his father.

2 Samuel 18:2

18:2 David then sent out the army – a third under the leadership of Joab, a third under the leadership of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under the leadership of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I too will indeed march out with you.”

2 Samuel 18:18

18:18 Prior to this ¹⁶  Absalom had set up a monument ¹⁷  and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning “I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial.

2 Samuel 19:37

19:37 Let me ¹⁸  return so that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But look, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever seems appropriate to you.”

2 Samuel 21:10

21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, ¹⁹  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed ²⁰  on them by day, nor the wild animals ²¹  by night.

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ²²  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ²³  from the leaders ²⁴  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ²⁵  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ²⁶  publicly exposed their corpses ²⁷  after ²⁸  they ²⁹  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

[4:12]  ¹ tn The antecedent of the pronoun “them” (which is not present in the Hebrew text, but implied) is not entirely clear. Presumably it is the corpses that were hung and not merely the detached hands and feet; cf. NIV “hung the (their NRSV, NLT) bodies”; the alternative is represented by TEV “cut off their hands and feet, which they hung up.”

[4:12]  ² tc 4QSam^a mistakenly reads “Mephibosheth” here.

[4:12]  ³ tc The LXX adds “the son of Ner” by conformity with common phraseology elsewhere.

[4:12]  ⁴ tc Some mss of the LXX lack the phrase “in Hebron.”

[6:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “arose and went.”

[6:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.

[6:2]  ⁷ tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).

[6:2]  ⁸ tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew mss in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.

[9:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “work.”

[9:10]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

[9:10]  ¹¹ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

[9:10]  ¹² tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

[12:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “to our voice.”

[12:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he will do harm.” The object is not stated in the Hebrew text. The statement may be intentionally vague, meaning that he might harm himself or them!

[17:23]  ¹⁷ tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”

[18:18]  ²¹ tn Heb “and.” This disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) describes an occurrence that preceded the events just narrated.

[18:18]  ²² tn Heb “a pillar.”

[19:37]  ²⁵ tn Heb “your servant.”

[21:10]  ²⁹ tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”

[21:10]  ³⁰ tn Heb “rest.”

[21:10]  ³¹ tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”

[21:12]  ³³ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

[21:12]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

[21:12]  ³⁵ tn Heb “lords.”

[21:12]  ³⁶ tn Heb “stolen.”

[21:12]  ³⁷ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

[21:12]  ³⁸ tn Heb “had hung them.”

[21:12]  ³⁹ tn Heb “in the day.”

[21:12]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “Philistines.”