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 19:17

19:17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant ⁵  of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed ⁶  the Jordan within sight of the king.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ⁷  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ⁸  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ⁹  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

[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.”

[19:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “youth.”

[19:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “rushed into.”

[20:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ¹¹ 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.”