Footnotes

Footnote from 2 Samuel 1:18 (Back)

[1] 1:18 Septuagint; Hebrew the Bow, which may be the name of the lament's tune

Footnote from 2 Samuel 1:18 (Back)

[2] 1:18 Or of the upright

Footnote from 2 Samuel 1:21 (Back)

[3] 1:21 Septuagint firstfruits

Footnote from 2 Samuel 2:16 (Back)

[1] 2:16 Helkath-hazzurim means the field of sword-edges

Footnote from 2 Samuel 3:12 (Back)

[1] 3:12 Or where he was; Septuagint at Hebron

Footnote from 2 Samuel 4:6 (Back)

[1] 4:6 Septuagint And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept. So Rechab and Baanah his brother slipped in

Footnote from 2 Samuel 5:2 (Back)

[1] 5:2 Or leader

Footnote from 2 Samuel 5:5 (Back)

[2] 5:5 Dead Sea Scroll lacks verses 4–5

Footnote from 2 Samuel 5:20 (Back)

[3] 5:20 Baal-perazim means lord of bursting through

Footnote from 2 Samuel 6:3 (Back)

[1] 6:3 Or and his brother; also verse 4

Footnote from 2 Samuel 6:3 (Back)

[2] 6:3 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew the new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill

Footnote from 2 Samuel 6:5 (Back)

[3] 6:5 Septuagint, 1 Chronicles 13:8; Hebrew fir trees

Footnote from 2 Samuel 6:8 (Back)

[4] 6:8 Perez-uzzah means the breaking out against Uzzah

Footnote from 2 Samuel 6:19 (Back)

[5] 6:19 Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain

Footnote from 2 Samuel 6:21 (Back)

[6] 6:21 Or leader

Footnote from 2 Samuel 6:22 (Back)

[7] 6:22 Septuagint; Hebrew my

Footnote from 2 Samuel 7:7 (Back)

[1] 7:7 Compare 1 Chronicles 17:6; Hebrew tribes

Footnote from 2 Samuel 7:8 (Back)

[2] 7:8 Or leader

Footnote from 2 Samuel 7:16 (Back)

[3] 7:16 Septuagint; Hebrew you

Footnote from 2 Samuel 7:23 (Back)

[4] 7:23 With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew you

Footnote from 2 Samuel 7:23 (Back)

[5] 7:23 Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew for your land

Footnote from 2 Samuel 8:18 (Back)

[1] 8:18 Compare 20:23, 1 Chronicles 18:17, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks was over

Footnote from 2 Samuel 9:11 (Back)

[1] 9:11 Septuagint; Hebrew my

Footnote from 2 Samuel 10:2 (Back)

[1] 10:2 Or kindly; twice in this verse

Footnote from 2 Samuel 10:16 (Back)

[2] 10:16 Hebrew the River

Footnote from 2 Samuel 12:3 (Back)

[1] 12:3 Hebrew bosom; also verse 8

Footnote from 2 Samuel 12:14 (Back)

[2] 12:14 Masoretic Text the enemies of the LORD; Dead Sea Scroll the word of the LORD

Footnote from 2 Samuel 12:25 (Back)

[3] 12:25 Jedidiah means beloved of the LORD

Footnote from 2 Samuel 12:30 (Back)

[4] 12:30 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

Footnote from 2 Samuel 12:31 (Back)

[5] 12:31 Hebrew pass through

Footnote from 2 Samuel 13:12 (Back)

[1] 13:12 Or humiliate; also verses 14, 22, 32

Footnote from 2 Samuel 13:16 (Back)

[2] 13:16 Compare Septuagint, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Footnote from 2 Samuel 13:18 (Back)

[3] 13:18 Or a robe of many colors (compare Genesis 37:3); also verse 19

Footnote from 2 Samuel 13:21 (Back)

[4] 13:21 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint add But he would not punish his son Amnon, because he loved him, since he was his firstborn

Footnote from 2 Samuel 13:34 (Back)

[5] 13:34 Septuagint the Horonaim Road

Footnote from 2 Samuel 13:39 (Back)

[6] 13:39 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Hebrew David

Footnote from 2 Samuel 13:39 (Back)

[7] 13:39 Compare Vulgate ceased to go out

Footnote from 2 Samuel 14:26 (Back)

[1] 14:26 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

Footnote from 2 Samuel 14:30 (Back)

[2] 14:30 Septuagint, Dead Sea Scroll add So Joab's servants came to him with their clothes torn, and they said to him, “The servants of Absalom have set your field on fire.”

Footnote from 2 Samuel 15:7 (Back)

[1] 15:7 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew forty

Footnote from 2 Samuel 15:8 (Back)

[2] 15:8 Or will serve

Footnote from 2 Samuel 15:12 (Back)

[3] 15:12 Or sent

Footnote from 2 Samuel 15:20 (Back)

[4] 15:20 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks may the LORD show

Footnote from 2 Samuel 15:27 (Back)

[5] 15:27 Septuagint The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Look, go back

Footnote from 2 Samuel 16:12 (Back)

[1] 16:12 Septuagint, Vulgate will look upon my affliction

Footnote from 2 Samuel 16:14 (Back)

[2] 16:14 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks at the Jordan

Footnote from 2 Samuel 17:3 (Back)

[1] 17:3 Septuagint; Hebrew back to you. Like the return of the whole is the man whom you seek

Footnote from 2 Samuel 17:8 (Back)

[2] 17:8 Hebrew bitter of soul

Footnote from 2 Samuel 17:9 (Back)

[3] 17:9 Or And as he falls on them

Footnote from 2 Samuel 17:14 (Back)

[4] 17:14 Hebrew commanded

Footnote from 2 Samuel 17:20 (Back)

[5] 17:20 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

Footnote from 2 Samuel 17:25 (Back)

[6] 17:25 Compare 1 Chronicles 2:17; Hebrew Israelite

Footnote from 2 Samuel 17:28 (Back)

[7] 17:28 Hebrew adds and parched grain

Footnote from 2 Samuel 18:9 (Back)

[1] 18:9 Or terebinth; also verses 10, 14

Footnote from 2 Samuel 18:13 (Back)

[2] 18:13 Or at the risk of my life

Footnote from 2 Samuel 18:18 (Back)

[3] 18:18 Or Absalom's hand

Footnote from 2 Samuel 18:33 (Back)

[4] 18:33 Ch 19:1 in Hebrew

Footnote from 2 Samuel 19:11 (Back)

[1] 19:11 Septuagint; Hebrew to the king, to his house

Footnote from 2 Samuel 19:26 (Back)

[2] 19:26 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate Saddle a donkey for me

Footnote from 2 Samuel 20:6 (Back)

[1] 20:6 Hebrew and snatch away our eyes

Footnote from 2 Samuel 20:14 (Back)

[2] 20:14 Compare 20:15; Hebrew and Beth-maacah

Footnote from 2 Samuel 20:14 (Back)

[3] 20:14 Hebrew Berites

Footnote from 2 Samuel 21:8 (Back)

[1] 21:8 Two Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts Michal

Footnote from 2 Samuel 21:16 (Back)

[2] 21:16 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

Footnote from 2 Samuel 21:19 (Back)

[3] 21:19 Contrast 1 Chronicles 20:5, which may preserve the original reading

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:3 (Back)

[1] 22:3 Septuagint (compare Psalm 18:2); Hebrew lacks my

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:5 (Back)

[2] 22:5 Or terrified me

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:9 (Back)

[3] 22:9 Or in his wrath

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:33 (Back)

[4] 22:33 Or his; also verse 34

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:33 (Back)

[5] 22:33 Compare Psalm 18:32; Hebrew he has blamelessly set my way free, or he has made my way spring up blamelessly

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:37 (Back)

[6] 22:37 Hebrew ankles

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:41 (Back)

[7] 22:41 Or You gave me my enemies' necks

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:44 (Back)

[8] 22:44 Septuagint with the peoples

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:46 (Back)

[9] 22:46 Compare Psalm 18:45; Hebrew equipped themselves

Footnote from 2 Samuel 22:51 (Back)

[10] 22:51 Or He is a tower of salvation

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:1 (Back)

[1] 23:1 Or the favorite of the songs of Israel

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:4 (Back)

[2] 23:4 Hebrew from rain

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:6 (Back)

[3] 23:6 Hebrew worthlessness

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:7 (Back)

[4] 23:7 Hebrew consumed with fire in the sitting

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:8 (Back)

[5] 23:8 Or of the captains

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:8 (Back)

[6] 23:8 Compare 1 Chronicles 11:11; the meaning of the Hebrew expression is uncertain

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:18 (Back)

[7] 23:18 Two Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts three

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:18 (Back)

[8] 23:18 Or slain ones

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:19 (Back)

[9] 23:19 Compare 1 Chronicles 11:25; Hebrew Was he the most renowned of the three?

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:20 (Back)

[10] 23:20 Or the son of Ishhai

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:20 (Back)

[11] 23:20 The meaning of the word ariel is unknown

Footnote from 2 Samuel 23:35 (Back)

[12] 23:35 Or Hezrai

Footnote from 2 Samuel 24:2 (Back)

[1] 24:2 Septuagint to Joab and the commanders of the army

Footnote from 2 Samuel 24:5 (Back)

[2] 24:5 Septuagint; Hebrew encamped in Aroer

Footnote from 2 Samuel 24:6 (Back)

[3] 24:6 Septuagint; Hebrew to the land of Tahtim-hodshi

Footnote from 2 Samuel 24:6 (Back)

[4] 24:6 Septuagint; Hebrew they came to Dan-jaan and

Footnote from 2 Samuel 24:12 (Back)

[5] 24:12 Or hold over

Footnote from 2 Samuel 24:13 (Back)

[6] 24:13 Compare 1 Chronicles 21:12, Septuagint; Hebrew seven

Footnote from 2 Samuel 24:24 (Back)

[7] 24:24 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams