2 Samuel 18:28

18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!” ¹  He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated ²  the men who opposed ³  my lord the king!”

2 Samuel 21:9

21:9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them ⁴  died ⁵  together; they were put to death during harvest time – during the first days of the beginning ⁶  of the barley harvest.

[18:28]  ¹ tn Heb “Peace.”

[18:28]  ² tn Heb “delivered over.”

[18:28]  ³ tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”

[21:9]  ⁴ tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shÿva’tam, “the seven of them”) rather than MT שִׁבַעְתִּים (shiva’tim, “seventy”).

[21:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “fell.”

[21:9]  ⁶ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת (bithkhillat, “in the beginning”) rather than MT תְחִלַּת (tÿkhillat, “beginning of”).