2 Samuel 7:9

7:9 I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated ¹  all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth. ² 

2 Samuel 7:1

The Lord Establishes a Covenant with David

7:1 The king settled into his palace, ³  for the Lord gave him relief ⁴  from all his enemies on all sides. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 18:12

18:12 The man replied to Joab, “Even if ⁶  I were receiving ⁷  a thousand pieces of silver, ⁸  I would not strike ⁹  the king’s son! In our very presence ¹⁰  the king gave this order to you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’ ¹¹ 

Psalms 60:1

Psalm 60 ¹² 

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; ¹³  a prayer ¹⁴  of David written to instruct others. ¹⁵  It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down ¹⁶  12,000 Edomites ¹⁷  in the Valley of Salt. ¹⁸ 

60:1 O God, you have rejected us. ¹⁹ 

You suddenly turned on us in your anger. ²⁰ 

Please restore us! ²¹ 

[7:9]  ¹ tn Heb “cut off.”

[7:9]  ² tn Heb “and I will make for you a great name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.”

[7:1]  ³ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

[7:1]  ⁴ tn Or “rest.”

[7:1]  ⁵ tn The translation understands the disjunctive clause in v. 1b as circumstantial-causal.

[18:12]  ⁶ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וְלוּ (vÿlu, “and if”) rather than MT וְלֹא (vÿlo’, “and not”).

[18:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “weighing out in my hand.”

[18:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “a thousand [shekels] of silver.” This would have been about 25 pounds (11.4 kg) of silver by weight.

[18:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “extend my hand against.”

[18:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in our ears.”

[18:12]  ¹¹ tc The Hebrew text is very difficult here. The MT reads מִי (mi, “who”), apparently yielding the following sense: “Show care, whoever you might be, for the youth Absalom.” The Syriac Peshitta reads li (“for me”), the Hebrew counterpart of which may also lie behind the LXX rendering μοι (moi, “for me”). This reading seems preferable here, since it restores sense to the passage and most easily explains the rise of the variant.

[60:1]  ¹² sn Psalm 60. The psalmist grieves over Israel’s humiliation, but in response to God’s assuring word, he asks for divine help in battle and expresses his confidence in victory.

[60:1]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew expression means “lily of the testimony.” It may refer to a particular music style or to a tune title.

[60:1]  ¹⁴ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word מִכְתָּם (miktam), which also appears in the heading to Pss 16, 56-59, is uncertain. HALOT 582-83 s.v. defines it as “inscription.”

[60:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to teach.”

[60:1]  ¹⁶ tn In Josh 8:21 and Judg 20:48 the two verbs “turn back” and “strike down” are also juxtaposed. There they refer to a military counter-attack.

[60:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “12,000 of Edom.” Perhaps one should read אֲרַם (’aram, “Aram”) here rather than אֱדוֹם (’edom, “Edom”).

[60:1]  ¹⁸ sn The heading apparently refers to the military campaign recorded in 2 Sam 10 and 1 Chr 19.

[60:1]  ¹⁹ sn You have rejected us. See Pss 43:2; 44:9, 23.

[60:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “you broke out upon us, you were angry.”

[60:1]  ²¹ tn The imperfect verbal form here expresses the psalmist’s wish or prayer.