2 Samuel 19:7

19:7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to ¹  your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ²  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ³  from the leaders ⁴  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁵  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁶  publicly exposed their corpses ⁷  after ⁸  they ⁹  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

2 Samuel 24:13

24:13 Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven ¹⁰  years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide ¹¹  what I should tell the one who sent me.”

[19:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and speak to the heart of.”

[21:12]  ² tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

[21:12]  ³ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

[21:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “lords.”

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “stolen.”

[21:12]  ⁶ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

[21:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “had hung them.”

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the day.”

[21:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “Philistines.”

[24:13]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX has here “three” rather than “seven,” and is followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT. See 1 Chr 21:12.

[24:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “now know and see.”