2 Samuel 8:16

David’s Cabinet

8:16 Joab son of Zeruiah was general in command of ¹  the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was secretary;

2 Samuel 12:25

12:25 and sent word through Nathan the prophet that he should be named Jedidiah ²  for the Lord’s sake.

2 Samuel 13:35

13:35 Jonadab said to the king, “Look! The king’s sons have come! It’s just as I said!”

2 Samuel 18:6

18:6 Then the army marched out to the field to fight against Israel. The battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ³  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ⁴  from the leaders ⁵  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁶  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁷  publicly exposed their corpses ⁸  after ⁹  they ¹⁰  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

2 Samuel 24:13

24:13 Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven ¹¹  years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide ¹²  what I should tell the one who sent me.”

[8:16]  ¹ tn Heb “was over.”

[12:25]  ² sn The name Jedidiah means “loved by the Lord.”

[21:12]  ³ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

[21:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “lords.”

[21:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “stolen.”

[21:12]  ⁷ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “had hung them.”

[21:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the day.”

[21:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Philistines.”

[24:13]  ¹¹ tc The LXX has here “three” rather than “seven,” and is followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT. See 1 Chr 21:12.

[24:13]  ¹² tn Heb “now know and see.”