2 Samuel 12:11

12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ¹  from inside your own household! ²  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ³  He will have sexual relations with ⁴  your wives in broad daylight! ⁵ 

2 Samuel 13:25

13:25 But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son. We shouldn’t all go. We shouldn’t burden you in that way.” Though Absalom ⁶  pressed ⁷  him, the king ⁸  was not willing to go. Instead, David ⁹  blessed him.

2 Samuel 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for ¹⁰  all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

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 18:32

18:32 The king asked the Cushite, “How is the young man Absalom?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who have plotted against you ¹¹  be like that young man!”

¹ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

² tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

³ tn Or “friend.”

⁴ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tc Here and in v. 27 the translation follows 4QSam^a ויצפר (vayyitspar, “and he pressed”) rather than the MT וַיִּפְרָץ (vayyiprats, “and he broke through”). This emended reading seems also to underlie the translations of the LXX (καὶ ἐβιάσατο, kai ebiasato), the Syriac Peshitta (we’alseh), and Vulgate (cogeret eum).

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and all those rising against you for evil.”