2 Samuel 4:4

4:4 Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. ¹  Mephibosheth was his name.

2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ²  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ³  and it will be ⁴  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ⁵  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 19:17

19:17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant ⁶  of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed ⁷  the Jordan within sight of the king.

2 Samuel 21:8

21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab ⁸  whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 24:9

24:9 Joab reported the number of warriors ⁹  to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.

[4:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and was lame.”

[9:10]  ² tn Heb “work.”

[9:10]  ³ tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

[9:10]  ⁴ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

[9:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

[19:17]  ³ tn Heb “youth.”

[19:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “rushed into.”

[21:8]  ⁴ tc The MT reads “Michal” here, but two Hebrew manuscripts read “Merab,” along with some LXX manuscripts. Cf. 1 Sam 18:19.

[24:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Joab gave the number of the numbering of the people.”