2 Samuel 6:16

6:16 As the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him. ¹ 

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ²  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ³  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ⁴  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁵  might do!”

2 Samuel 11:1

David Commits Adultery with Bathsheba

11:1 In the spring of the year, at the time when kings ⁶  normally conduct wars, ⁷  David sent out Joab with his officers ⁸  and the entire Israelite army. ⁹  They defeated the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed behind in Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 16:2

16:2 The king asked Ziba, “Why did you bring these things?” ¹¹  Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s family to ride on, the loaves of bread ¹²  and the summer fruit are for the attendants to eat, and the wine is for those who get exhausted in the desert.” ¹³ 

2 Samuel 17:17

17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying in En Rogel. A female servant would go and inform them, and they would then go and inform King David. It was not advisable for them to be seen going into the city.

[6:16]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text adds “in her heart.” Cf. CEV “she was disgusted (+ with him TEV)”; NLT “was filled with contempt for him”; NCV “she hated him.”

[6:20]  ² tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

[6:20]  ³ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “honored.”

[6:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

[11:1]  ⁶ tc Codex Leningrad (B19A), on which BHS is based, has here “messengers” (הַמַּלְאכִים, hammal’khim), probably as the result of contamination from the occurrence of that word in v. 4. The present translation follows most Hebrew mss and the ancient versions, which read “kings” (הַמֶּלָאכִים, hammela’kim).

[11:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “go out.”

[11:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “and his servants with him.”

[11:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “all Israel.”

[11:1]  ¹⁰ tn The disjunctive clause contrasts David’s inactivity with the army’s activity.

[16:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “What are these to you?”

[16:2]  ¹² tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וְהַלֶּחֶם (vÿhallekhem, “and the bread”) rather than וּלְהַלֶּחֶם (ulÿhallekhem, “and to the bread”) of the Kethib. The syntax of the MT is confused here by the needless repetition of the preposition, probably taken from the preceding word.

[16:2]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text adds “to drink.”