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 6:16

6:16 As the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him. ² 

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ³  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ⁴  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ⁵  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 21:8

21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab ⁶  whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

[4:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and was lame.”

[6:16]  ² tn The Hebrew text adds “in her heart.” Cf. CEV “she was disgusted (+ with him TEV)”; NLT “was filled with contempt for him”; NCV “she hated him.”

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ⁵ 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.”

[21:8]  ⁶ tc The MT reads “Michal” here, but two Hebrew manuscripts read “Merab,” along with some LXX manuscripts. Cf. 1 Sam 18:19.