2 Samuel 4:10

4:10 when someone told me that Saul was dead – even though he thought he was bringing good news ¹  – I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him!

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ²  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ³  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ⁴  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁵  might do!”

2 Samuel 11:2

11:2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. ⁶  From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 14:22

14:22 Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground and thanked ⁸  the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, because the king has granted the request of your ⁹  servant!”

[4:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and he was like a bearer of good news in his eyes.”

[6:20]  ² tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

[6:20]  ³ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “honored.”

[6:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

[11:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “on the roof of the house of the king.” So also in vv. 8, 9.

[11:2]  ⁷ tn The disjunctive clause highlights this observation and builds the tension of the story.

[14:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “blessed.”

[14:22]  ⁹ tc The present translation reads with the Qere “your” rather than the MT “his.”