2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ¹  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ²  and it will be ³  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ⁴  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 12:3

12:3 But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. ⁵  It used to ⁶  eat his food, ⁷  drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. ⁸  It was just like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 24:16

24:16 When the angel ⁹  extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. ¹⁰  He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” ¹¹  (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)

[9:10]  ¹ tn Heb “work.”

[9:10]  ² tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

[9:10]  ³ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

[9:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

[12:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “his sons.”

[12:3]  ⁶ tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical.

[12:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “from his morsel.”

[12:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lay.”

[24:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “messenger.”

[24:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

[24:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”