2 Samuel 6:19

6:19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, ¹  both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, ²  and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home. ³ 

2 Samuel 11:27

11:27 When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. ⁴  She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the Lord. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 12:3

12:3 But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. ⁶  It used to ⁷  eat his food, ⁸  drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. ⁹  It was just like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 14:11

14:11 She replied, “In that case, ¹⁰  let the king invoke the name of ¹¹  the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head ¹²  will fall to the ground.”

2 Samuel 14:13

14:13 The woman said, “Why have you devised something like this against God’s people? When the king speaks in this fashion, he makes himself guilty, for the king has not brought back the one he has banished.

2 Samuel 14:19

14:19 The king said, “Did Joab put you up to all of this?” ¹³  The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, there is no deviation to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has said. For your servant Joab gave me instructions. He has put all these words in your servant’s mouth.

2 Samuel 20:21-22

20:21 That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled ¹⁴  against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute ¹⁵  his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

20:22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab ¹⁶  blew the trumpet, and his men ¹⁷  dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. ¹⁸  Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

[6:19]  ¹ tn Heb “to all the people, to all the throng of Israel.”

[6:19]  ² tn The Hebrew word used here אֶשְׁפָּר (’espar) is found in the OT only here and in the parallel passage found in 1 Chr 16:3. Its exact meaning is uncertain, although the context indicates that it was a food of some sort (cf. KJV “a good piece of flesh”; NRSV “a portion of meat”). The translation adopted here (“date cake”) follows the lead of the Greek translations of the LXX, Aquila, and Symmachus (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

[6:19]  ³ tn Heb “and all the people went, each to his house.”

[11:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “David sent and gathered her to his house.”

[11:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of the Lord.” Note the verbal connection with v. 25. Though David did not regard the matter as evil, the Lord certainly did.

[12:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “his sons.”

[12:3]  ⁷ tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical.

[12:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “from his morsel.”

[12:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lay.”

[14:11]  ¹⁰ tn The words “in that case” are not in the Hebrew text, but may be inferred from the context. They are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarification.

[14:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “let the king remember.”

[14:11]  ¹² tn Heb “of your son.”

[14:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”

[20:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “lifted his hand.”

[20:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Look!”

[20:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (Joab’s men) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:22]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “his tents.”