2 Samuel 12:17

12:17 The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.

2 Samuel 12:21

12:21 His servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? While ¹  the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!”

2 Samuel 13:15

13:15 Then Amnon greatly despised her. ²  His disdain toward her surpassed the love he had previously felt toward her. ³  Amnon said to her, “Get up and leave!”

2 Samuel 24:18

David Acquires a Threshing Floor and Constructs an Altar There

24:18 So Gad went to David that day and told him, “Go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

[12:21]  ¹ tc For the MT בַּעֲבוּר (ba’avur, “for the sake of”) we should probably read בְּעוֹד (bÿ’od, “while”). See the Lucianic Greek recension, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum.

[13:15]  ² tn Heb “and Amnon hated her with very great hatred.”

[13:15]  ³ tn Heb “for greater was the hatred with which he hated her than the love with which he loved her.”