2 Samuel 17:27

17:27 When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim

2 Samuel 18:24

18:24 Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, ¹  and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.

2 Samuel 19:15

19:15 So the king returned and came to the Jordan River. ² 

Now the people of Judah ³  had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him ⁴  cross the Jordan.

2 Samuel 20:16

20:16 a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen up! Listen up! Tell Joab, ‘Come near so that I may speak to you.’”

2 Samuel 23:13

23:13 At the time of ⁵  the harvest three ⁶  of the thirty leaders went down to ⁷  David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim.

[18:24]  ¹ tn Heb “the two gates.”

[19:15]  ² tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[19:15]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Judah.”

[19:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “the king.” The pronoun (“him”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.

[23:13]  ⁵ tn The meaning of Hebrew אֶל־קָצִיר (’el qatsir) seems here to be “at the time of harvest,” although this is an unusual use of the phrase. As S. R. Driver points out, this preposition does not normally have the temporal sense of “in” or “during” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 366).

[23:13]  ⁶ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁלֹשָׁה (shÿloshah, “three”) rather than the Kethib of the MT שְׁלֹשִׁים (shÿloshim, “thirty”). “Thirty” is due to dittography of the following word and makes no sense in the context.

[23:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “went down…and approached.”