2 Samuel 1:12

1:12 They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord’s people, and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 2:24

2:24 So Joab and Abishai chased Abner. At sunset they came to the hill of Ammah near Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

2 Samuel 2:26

2:26 Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”

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 13:22

13:22 But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 15:24

15:24 Zadok and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. When they positioned the ark of God, Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving ⁴  the city.

2 Samuel 16:5

Shimei Curses David and His Men

16:5 Then King David reached ⁵  Bahurim. There a man from Saul’s extended family named Shimei son of Gera came out, yelling curses as he approached. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 17:11

17:11 My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba – in number like the sand by the sea! – be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.

2 Samuel 18:18

18:18 Prior to this ⁷  Absalom had set up a monument ⁸  and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning “I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial.

2 Samuel 19:24

19:24 Now Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, ⁹  came down to meet the king. From the day the king had left until the day he safely ¹⁰  returned, Mephibosheth ¹¹  had not cared for his feet ¹²  nor trimmed ¹³  his mustache nor washed his clothes.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ¹⁴  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ¹⁵  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹⁶  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 21:10

21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, ¹⁷  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed ¹⁸  on them by day, nor the wild animals ¹⁹  by night.

2 Samuel 23:10

23:10 he stood his ground ²⁰  and fought the Philistines until his hand grew so tired that it ²¹  seemed stuck to his sword. The Lord gave a great victory on that day. When the army returned to him, the only thing left to do was to plunder the corpses.

2 Samuel 24:2

24:2 The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.”

¹ tn Heb “to all the people, to all the throng of Israel.”

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).

³ tn Heb “and all the people went, each to his house.”

¹ tn Heb “crossing from.”

¹ tn Heb “came to.” The form of the verb in the MT is odd. Some prefer to read וַיַּבֹא (vayyavo’), preterite with vav consecutive) rather than וּבָא (uva’), apparently perfect with vav), but this is probably an instance where the narrative offline vÿqatal construction introduces a new scene.

² tn Heb “And look, from there a man was coming out from the clan of the house of Saul and his name was Shimei son of Gera, continually going out and cursing.”

¹ tn Heb “and.” This disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) describes an occurrence that preceded the events just narrated.

² tn Heb “a pillar.”

¹ tn Heb “son.”

² tn Heb “in peace.” So also in v. 31.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Mephibosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “done his feet.”

⁵ tn Heb “done.”

¹ tn Heb “house.”

² tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

³ 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.”

¹ tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”

² tn Heb “rest.”

³ tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”

¹ tn Heb “arose.”

² tn Heb “his hand.”