2 Samuel 7:10

7:10 I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle ¹  them there; they will live there and not be disturbed ²  any more. Violent men ³  will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginning

2 Samuel 17:8

17:8 Hushai went on to say, “You know your father and his men – they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs. ⁴  Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.

2 Samuel 18:18

18:18 Prior to this ⁵  Absalom had set up a monument ⁶  and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning “I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ⁷  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ⁸  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ⁹  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 23:11

23:11 Next in command ¹⁰  was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines assembled at Lehi, ¹¹  where there happened to be an area of a field that was full of lentils, the army retreated before the Philistines.

2 Samuel 23:18

23:18 Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, was head of the three. ¹²  He killed three hundred men with his spear and gained fame among the three. ¹³ 

2 Samuel 23:21

23:21 He also killed an impressive-looking Egyptian. ¹⁴  The Egyptian wielded a spear, while Benaiah attacked ¹⁵  him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

[7:10]  ¹ tn Heb “plant.”

[7:10]  ² tn Heb “shaken.”

[7:10]  ³ tn Heb “the sons of violence.”

[17:8]  ⁴ tc The LXX (with the exception of the recensions of Origen and Lucian) repeats the description as follows: “Just as a female bear bereft of cubs in a field.”

[18:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “and.” This disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) describes an occurrence that preceded the events just narrated.

[18:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “a pillar.”

[20:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”

[23:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “after him.”

[23:11]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text is difficult here. The MT reads לַחַיָּה (lachayyah), which implies a rare use of the word חַיָּה (chayyah). The word normally refers to an animal, but if the MT is accepted it would here have the sense of a troop or community of people. BDB 312 s.v. II. חַיָּה, for example, understands the similar reference in v. 13 to be to “a group of allied families, making a raid together.” But this works better in v. 13 than it does in v. 11, where the context seems to suggest a particular staging location for a military operation. (See 1 Chr 11:15.) It therefore seems best to understand the word in v. 11 as a place name with ה (he) directive. In that case the Masoretes mistook the word for the common term for an animal and then tried to make sense of it in this context.

[23:18]  ¹² tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and Vulgate in reading הַשְּׁלֹשָׁה (hashÿlosa, “the three”) rather than the Kethib of the MT הַשָּׁלִשִׁי (hashalisi, “the third,” or “adjutant”). Two medieval Hebrew mss and the Syriac Peshitta have “thirty.”

[23:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he was wielding his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain, and to him there was a name among the three.”

[23:21]  ¹⁴ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading אִישׁ (’ish, “man”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who”).

[23:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he went down to.”