2 Samuel 12:16

12:16 Then David prayed to ¹  God for the child and fasted. ²  He would even ³  go and spend the night lying on the ground.

2 Samuel 13:27

13:27 But when Absalom pressed him, he sent Amnon and all the king’s sons along with him.

2 Samuel 14:4

14:4 So the Tekoan woman went ⁴  to the king. She bowed down with her face to the ground in deference to him and said, “Please help me, ⁵  O king!”

2 Samuel 15:33

15:33 David said to him, “If you leave ⁶  with me you will be a burden to me.

2 Samuel 16:6

16:6 He threw stones at David and all of King David’s servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.

2 Samuel 17:22

17:22 So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. ⁷  By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.

2 Samuel 23:6

23:6 But evil people are like thorns –

all of them are tossed away,

for they cannot be held in the hand.

[12:16]  ¹ tn Heb “sought” or “searched for.”

[12:16]  ² tn Heb “and David fasted.”

[12:16]  ³ tn The three Hebrew verbs that follow in this verse are perfects with prefixed vav. They may describe repeated past actions or actions which accompanied David’s praying and fasting.

[14:4]  ⁴ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וַתַּבֹא (vattavo’, “and she went”) rather than the MT וַתֹּאמֶר (vatto’mer, “and she said”). The MT reading shows confusion with וַתֹּאמֶר later in the verse. The emendation suggested here is supported by the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, some mss of the Targum, and Vulgate.

[14:4]  ⁵ tn The word “me” is left to be inferred in the Hebrew text; it is present in the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate.

[15:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “cross over.”

[17:22]  ⁷ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text here or in v. 24, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.