2 Samuel 6:15

6:15 David and all Israel ¹  were bringing up the ark of the Lord, shouting and blowing trumpets. ² 

2 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But he refused to listen to her. ³  He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 22:7

22:7 In my distress I called to the Lord;

I called to my God. ⁵ 

From his heavenly temple ⁶  he heard my voice;

he listened to my cry for help. ⁷ 

[6:15]  ¹ tc Heb “all the house of Israel.” A few medieval Hebrew mss and the Syriac Peshitta lack the words “the house.”

[6:15]  ² tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet).

[13:14]  ³ tn Heb “to her voice.”

[13:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he humiliated her and lay with her.”

[22:7]  ⁵ tn In this poetic narrative the two prefixed verbal forms in v. 7a are best understood as preterites indicating past tense, not imperfects. Note the use of the vav consecutive with the prefixed verbal form that follows in v. 7b.

[22:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “from his temple.” Verse 10, which pictures God descending from the sky, indicates that the heavenly, not earthly, temple is in view.

[22:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “and my cry for help [entered] his ears.”