2 Samuel 19:6

19:6 You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now ¹  that if ²  Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, ³  it would be all right with you.

2 Samuel 19:35

19:35 I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I ⁴  taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I ⁵  continue to be a burden to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 19:42-43

19:42 All the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative! Why are you so upset about this? Have we eaten at the king’s expense? ⁶  Or have we misappropriated anything for our own use?” 19:43 The men of Israel replied to the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and we have a greater claim on David than you do! Why do you want ⁷  to curse us? Weren’t we the first to suggest bringing back our king?” But the comments of the men of Judah were more severe than those of the men of Israel.

[19:6]  ¹ tn Heb “today.”

[19:6]  ² tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSam^a, and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוּ (lu, “if”) rather than MT לֹא (lo’, “not”).

[19:6]  ³ tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack “today.”

[19:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “your servant.”

[19:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “your servant.”

[19:42]  ⁶ tn Heb “from the king.”

[19:43]  ⁷ tn The translation understands the verb in a desiderative sense, indicating the desire but not necessarily the completed action of the party in question. It is possible, however, that the verb should be given the more common sense of accomplished action, in which case it means here “Why have you cursed us?”