2 Samuel 2:6

2:6 Now may the Lord show you true kindness! ¹  I also will reward you, ²  because you have done this deed.

2 Samuel 3:24

3:24 So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Abner ³  has come to you! Why would you send him away? Now he’s gone on his way! ⁴ 

2 Samuel 3:39

3:39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear! ⁵  May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!” ⁶ 

2 Samuel 19:19

19:19 He said to the king, “Don’t think badly of me, my lord, and don’t recall the sin of your servant on the day when you, my lord the king, left ⁷  Jerusalem! ⁸  Please don’t call it to mind!

[2:6]  ¹ tn Or “loyalty and devotion.”

[2:6]  ² tn Heb “will do with you this good.”

[3:24]  ³ tn Heb “Look, Abner.”

[3:24]  ⁴ tc The LXX adds “in peace.”

[3:39]  ⁵ tn Heb “are hard from me.”

[3:39]  ⁶ tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).

[19:19]  ⁷ tn Though this verb in the MT is 3rd person masculine singular, it should probably be read as 2nd person masculine singular. It is one of fifteen places where the Masoretes placed a dot over each of the letters of the word in question in order to call attention to their suspicion of the word. Their concern in this case apparently had to do with the fact that this verb and the two preceding verbs alternate from third person to second and back again to third. Words marked in this way in Hebrew manuscripts or printed editions are said to have puncta extrordinaria, or “extraordinary points.”

[19:19]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.