2 Samuel 2:5
2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the
Lord because you have shown this kindness
1 to your lord Saul by burying him.
2 Samuel 3:7
3:7 Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. Ish-bosheth
2 said to Abner, “Why did you have sexual relations with
3 my father’s concubine?”
4
2 Samuel 11:15
11:15 In the letter he wrote: “Station Uriah in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.”
2 Samuel 13:2
13:2 But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick
5 over his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and to Amnon it seemed out of the question to do anything to her.
2 Samuel 15:34
15:34 But you will be able to counter the advice of Ahithophel if you go back to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king! Previously I was your father’s servant, and now I will be your servant.’
2 Samuel 19:14
19:14 He 6 won over the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man. Then they sent word to the king saying, “Return, you and all your servants as well.”
1 tn Or “loyalty.”
2 tc The Hebrew of the MT reads simply “and he said,” with no expressed subject for the verb. It is not likely that the text originally had no expressed subject for this verb, since the antecedent is not immediately clear from the context. We should probably restore to the Hebrew text the name “Ish-bosheth.” See a few medieval Hebrew mss, Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, and Vulgate. Perhaps the name was accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. Note that both the name Ishbosheth and the following preposition אֶל (’el) begin with the letter alef.
3 tn Heb “come to”; KJV, NRSV “gone in to”; NAB “been intimate with”; NIV “sleep with.”
4 sn This accusation against Abner is a very serious one, since an act of sexual infringement on the king’s harem would probably have been understood as a blatant declaration of aspirations to kingship. As such it was not merely a matter of ethical impropriety but an act of grave political significance as well.
5 tn Heb “and there was distress to Amnon so that he made himself sick.”
6 tn The referent of “he” is not entirely clear: cf. NCV “David”; TEV “David’s words”; NRSV, NLT “Amasa.”