2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ¹  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ²  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ³  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁴  might do!”

2 Samuel 13:28

13:28 Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk ⁵  and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!” ⁶ 

2 Samuel 14:2

14:2 So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman. He told her, “Pretend to be in mourning ⁷  and put on garments for mourning. Don’t anoint yourself with oil. Instead, act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for some time. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 17:20

17:20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men ⁹  searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 18:3

18:3 But the soldiers replied, ¹¹  “You should not do this! ¹²  For if we should have to make a rapid retreat, they won’t be too concerned about us. ¹³  Even if half of us should die, they won’t be too concerned about us. But you ¹⁴  are like ten thousand of us! So it is better if you remain in the city for support.”

2 Samuel 19:37

19:37 Let me ¹⁵  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 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ¹⁶  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ¹⁷  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹⁸  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 24:17

24:17 When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the Lord, “Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep – what have they done? Attack me and my family.” ¹⁹ 

[6:20]  ¹ tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

[6:20]  ² tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:20]  ³ tn Heb “honored.”

[6:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

[13:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “when good is the heart of Amnon with wine.”

[13:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “and become sons of valor.”

[14:2]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew Hitpael verbal form here indicates pretended rather than genuine action.

[14:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “these many days.”

[17:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “they”; the referents (Absalom’s men) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:20]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[18:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the people said.”

[18:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “march out.”

[18:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “they will not place to us heart.”

[18:3]  ²⁰ tc The translation follows the LXX (except for the Lucianic recension), Symmachus, and Vulgate in reading אָתָּה (’atta, “you”) rather than MT עָתָּה (’atta, “now”).

[19:37]  ²¹ tn Heb “your servant.”

[20:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”

[24:17]  ²⁹ tn Heb “let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.”