2 Samuel 6:12

6:12 David was told, ¹  “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

2 Samuel 12:18

12:18 On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said, “While the child was still alive he would not listen to us ²  when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!” ³ 

2 Samuel 20:1

Sheba’s Rebellion

20:1 Now a wicked man ⁴  named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, ⁵  happened to be there. He blew the trumpet ⁶  and said,

“We have no share in David;

we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!

Every man go home, ⁷  O Israel!”

2 Samuel 24:22

24:22 Araunah told David, “My lord the king may take whatever he wishes ⁸  and offer it. Look! Here are oxen for burnt offerings, and threshing sledges ⁹  and harnesses ¹⁰  for wood.

2 Samuel 24:24

24:24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it from you! I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.”

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver. ¹¹ 

[6:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”

[12:18]  ² tn Heb “to our voice.”

[12:18]  ³ tn Heb “he will do harm.” The object is not stated in the Hebrew text. The statement may be intentionally vague, meaning that he might harm himself or them!

[20:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”

[20:1]  ⁵ tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.

[20:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.

[20:1]  ⁷ tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.

[24:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[24:22]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the equipment of the oxen.”

[24:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fifty shekels of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.