2 Samuel 4:12
Konteks4:12 So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them 1 near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth 2 and buried it in the tomb of Abner 3 in Hebron. 4
2 Samuel 10:19
Konteks10:19 When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer 5 saw they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subjects of Israel. 6 The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.
2 Samuel 20:8
Konteks20:8 When they were near the big rock that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire and had a dagger in its sheath belted to his waist. When he advanced, it fell out. 7
[4:12] 1 tn The antecedent of the pronoun “them” (which is not present in the Hebrew text, but implied) is not entirely clear. Presumably it is the corpses that were hung and not merely the detached hands and feet; cf. NIV “hung the (their NRSV, NLT) bodies”; the alternative is represented by TEV “cut off their hands and feet, which they hung up.”
[4:12] 2 tc 4QSama mistakenly reads “Mephibosheth” here.
[4:12] 3 tc The LXX adds “the son of Ner” by conformity with common phraseology elsewhere.
[4:12] 4 tc Some
[10:19] 5 tn Heb “the servants of Hadadezer.”
[10:19] 6 tn Heb “and they served them.”
[20:8] 7 sn The significance of the statement it fell out here is unclear. If the dagger fell out of its sheath before Joab got to Amasa, how then did he kill him? Josephus, Ant. 7.11.7 (7.284), suggested that as Joab approached Amasa he deliberately caused the dagger to fall to the ground at an opportune moment as though by accident. When he bent over and picked it up, he then stabbed Amasa with it. Others have tried to make a case for thinking that two swords are referred to – the one that fell out and another that Joab kept concealed until the last moment. But nothing in the text clearly supports this view. Perhaps Josephus’ understanding is best, but it is by no means obvious in the text either.
