2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ¹  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ²  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ³  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁴  might do!”

2 Samuel 7:27

7:27 for you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have told ⁵  your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ ⁶  That is why your servant has had the courage ⁷  to pray this prayer to you.

2 Samuel 16:21

16:21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Have sex with ⁸  your father’s concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you.” ⁹ 

2 Samuel 20:15

20:15 So Joab’s men ¹⁰  came and laid siege against him in Abel of Beth Maacah. They prepared a siege ramp outside the city which stood against its outer rampart. As all of Joab’s soldiers were trying to break through ¹¹  the wall so that it would collapse,

[6:20]  ¹ tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

[6:20]  ² tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:20]  ³ tn Heb “honored.”

[6:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

[7:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “have uncovered the ear of.”

[7:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “a house.” This maintains the wordplay from v. 11 (see the note on the word “house” there) and is continued in v. 29.

[7:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “has found his heart.”

[16:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “go to”; NAB “have (+ sexual NCV) relations with”; TEV “have intercourse with”; NLT “Go and sleep with.”

[16:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

[20:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they.” The following context makes it clear that this refers to Joab and his army.

[20:15]  ¹¹ tc The LXX has here ἐνοοῦσαν (enoousan, “were devising”), which apparently presupposes the Hebrew word מַחֲשָׁבִים (makhashavim) rather than the MT מַשְׁחִיתִם (mashkhitim, “were destroying”). With a number of other scholars Driver thinks that the Greek variant may preserve the original reading, but this seems to be an unnecessary conclusion (but see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 346).