2 Samuel 10:2-3

10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ¹  to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal ²  to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. ³  When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites, 10:3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? ⁴  No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!” ⁵ 

2 Samuel 24:22

24:22 Araunah told David, “My lord the king may take whatever he wishes ⁶  and offer it. Look! Here are oxen for burnt offerings, and threshing sledges ⁷  and harnesses ⁸  for wood.

[10:2]  ¹ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[10:2]  ² tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[10:2]  ³ tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”

[10:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

[10:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “Is it not to explore the city and to spy on it and to overthrow it [that] David has sent his servants to you?”

[24:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[24:22]  ⁷ sn Threshing sledges were heavy boards used in ancient times for loosening grain from husks. On the bottom sides of these boards sharp stones were embedded, and the boards were then dragged across the grain on a threshing floor by an ox or donkey.

[24:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “the equipment of the oxen.”