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 6:20

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 6:22

6:22 I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! ⁶  But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!”

2 Samuel 17:17

17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying in En Rogel. A female servant would go and inform them, and they would then go and inform King David. It was not advisable for them to be seen going into the city.

[4:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and was lame.”

[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 The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.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.”

[6:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I will shame myself still more than this and I will be lowly in my eyes.”