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 20:22

20:22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab ⁵  blew the trumpet, and his men ⁶  dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. ⁷  Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

[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.”

[20:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (Joab’s men) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “his tents.”