2 Samuel 12:21

12:21 His servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? While ¹  the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!”

2 Samuel 13:4

13:4 He asked Amnon, ²  “Why are you, the king’s son, ³  so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.”

2 Samuel 16:22

16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, ⁴  and Absalom had sex with ⁵  his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 17:19

17:19 His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.

2 Samuel 18:27

18:27 The watchman said, “It appears to me that the first runner is Ahimaaz ⁶  son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and he comes with good news.”

[12:21]  ¹ tc For the MT בַּעֲבוּר (ba’avur, “for the sake of”) we should probably read בְּעוֹד (bÿ’od, “while”). See the Lucianic Greek recension, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum.

[13:4]  ² tn Heb “and he said to him.”

[13:4]  ³ tn An more idiomatic translation might be “Why are you of all people…?”

[16:22]  ⁴ sn That is, on top of the flat roof of the palace, so it would be visible to the public.

[16:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “went to”; NAB “he visited his father’s concubines”; NIV “lay with his father’s concubines”; TEV “went in and had intercourse with.”

[18:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “I am seeing the running of the first one like the running of Ahimaaz.”