2 Samuel 12:9

12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my ¹  sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! ²  You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 18:11

18:11 Joab replied to the man who was telling him this, “What! You saw this? Why didn’t you strike him down right on the spot? ³  I would have given you ten pieces of silver ⁴  and a commemorative belt!” ⁵ 

¹ tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”

² tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.

³ tn Heb “Why did you not strike him down there to the ground.”

⁴ tn Heb “ten [shekels] of silver.” This would have been about 4 ounces (114 grams) of silver by weight.

⁵ tn Heb “and a girdle” (so KJV); NIV “a warrior’s belt”; CEV “a special belt”; NLT “a hero’s belt.”