2 Samuel 14:32

14:32 Absalom said to Joab, “Look, I sent a message to you saying, ‘Come here so that I can send you to the king with this message: ¹  “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.”’ Let me now see the face of the king. If I am at fault, let him put me to death!”

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ²  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ³  from the leaders ⁴  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁵  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁶  publicly exposed their corpses ⁷  after ⁸  they ⁹  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

[14:32]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[21:12]  ² tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

[21:12]  ³ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

[21:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “lords.”

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “stolen.”

[21:12]  ⁶ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

[21:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “had hung them.”

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the day.”

[21:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “Philistines.”