2 Samuel 4:7

4:7 They had entered ¹  the house while Ish-bosheth ²  was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him ³  and then cut off his head. ⁴  Taking his head, ⁵  they traveled on the way of the Arabah all that night.

2 Samuel 7:26

7:26 so you may gain lasting fame, ⁶  as people say, ⁷  ‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel!’ The dynasty ⁸  of your servant David will be established before you,

2 Samuel 15:23

15:23 All the land was weeping loudly ⁹  as all these people were leaving. ¹⁰  As the king was crossing over the Kidron Valley, all the people were leaving ¹¹  on the road that leads to the desert.

2 Samuel 16:18

16:18 Hushai replied to Absalom, “No, I will be loyal to the one whom the Lord, these people, and all the men of Israel have chosen. ¹² 

[4:7]  ¹ tn After the concluding disjunctive clause at the end of v. 6, the author now begins a more detailed account of the murder and its aftermath.

[4:7]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ish-bosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:7]  ³ tn Heb “they struck him down and killed him.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

[4:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they removed his head.” The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate lack these words.

[4:7]  ⁵ tc The Lucianic Greek recension lacks the words “his head.”

[7:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “and your name might be great permanently.” Following the imperative in v. 23b, the prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result.

[7:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “saying.” The words “as people” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

[7:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “the house.” See the note on “dynastic house” in the following verse.

[15:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “with a great voice.”

[15:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “crossing over.”

[15:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “crossing near the face of.”

[16:18]  ¹² tn Heb “No for with the one whom the Lord has chosen, and this people, and all the men of Israel, I will be and with him I will stay.” The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוֹ (lo, “[I will be] to him”) rather than the MT לֹא (lo’, “[I will] not be”), which makes very little sense here.