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 12:8

12:8 I gave you your master’s house, and put your master’s wives into your arms. ⁵  I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all that somehow seems insignificant, I would have given you so much more as well!

[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.”

[12:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the wives of your lord into your chest [or “lap”].” The words “I put” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.