2 Samuel 7:18

David Offers a Prayer to God

7:18 King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, ¹  that you should have brought me to this point?

2 Samuel 15:31

15:31 Now David ²  had been told, “Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, ³  “Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!”

[7:18]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[15:31]  ² tc The translation follows 4QSam^a, part of the Greek tradition, the Syriac Peshitta, Targum, and Vulgate uldavid in reading “and to David,” rather than MT וְדָוִד (vÿdavid, “and David”). As Driver points out, the Hebrew verb הִגִּיד (higgid, “he related”) never uses the accusative for the person to whom something is told (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 316).

[15:31]  ³ tn Heb “said.”