2 Samuel 4:4

4:4 Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. ¹  Mephibosheth was his name.

2 Samuel 15:14

15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, ²  “Come on! ³  Let’s escape! ⁴  Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring ⁵  disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” ⁶ 

2 Samuel 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his ⁷  mule, it ⁸  went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, ⁹  while the mule he had been riding kept going.

[4:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and was lame.”

[15:14]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:14]  ³ tn Heb “Arise!”

[15:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “let’s flee.”

[15:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “thrust.”

[15:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

[18:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “the.”

[18:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “the donkey.”

[18:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”