2 Samuel 8:12

8:12 including ¹  Aram, ²  Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amelek. This also included some of the plunder taken from ³  King Hadadezer son of Rehob of Zobah.

2 Samuel 3:22

Abner Is Killed

3:22 Now David’s soldiers ⁴  and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David ⁵  had sent him away and he had left in peace.

2 Samuel 12:30

12:30 He took the crown of their king ⁶  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, ⁷  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

[8:12]  ¹ tn Heb “from.”

[8:12]  ² tc The present translation follows the MT; a few Hebrew mss along with the LXX and Syriac read “Edom” (cf. 2 Sam 8:14 and 1 Chr 18:11). Many modern English versions read “Edom” here (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[8:12]  ³ tn Heb “and from the plunder of.”

[3:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “And look, the servants of David.”

[3:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:30]  ⁷ tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”

[12:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.