2 Samuel 1:26

1:26 I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan!

You were very dear to me.

Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

2 Samuel 3:33-38

3:33 The king chanted the following lament for Abner:

“Should Abner have died like a fool?

3:34 Your hands ¹  were not bound,

and your feet were not put into irons.

You fell the way one falls before criminals.”

All the people ²  wept over him again. 3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ³  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

3:36 All the people noticed this and it pleased them. ⁴  In fact, everything the king did pleased all the people. 3:37 All the people and all Israel realized on that day that the killing of Abner son of Ner was not done at the king’s instigation. ⁵ 

3:38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader ⁶  has fallen this day in Israel?

2 Samuel 3:1

3:1 However, the war was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David. David was becoming steadily stronger, while the house of Saul was becoming increasingly weaker.

Acts 13:30

13:30 But God raised ⁷  him from the dead,

[3:34]  ¹ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”

[3:34]  ² tc 4QSam^a lacks the words “all the people.”

[3:35]  ¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[3:36]  ¹ tn Heb “it was good in their eyes.”

[3:37]  ¹ tn Heb “from the king.”

[3:38]  ¹ tn Heb “a leader and a great one.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[13:30]  ¹ sn See the note on the phrase “raised up” in v. 22, which is the same Greek verb used here.