2 Samuel 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ¹  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ²  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ³  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ⁴  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁵  might do!”

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ⁶  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ⁷  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ⁸  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 21:10

21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, ⁹  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed ¹⁰  on them by day, nor the wild animals ¹¹  by night.

[3:35]  ¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[6:20]  ² tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

[6:20]  ³ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “honored.”

[6:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

[20:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”

[21:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”

[21:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “rest.”

[21:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”