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 24:3

24:3 Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”

2 Samuel 14:14

14:14 Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.¹

2 Samuel 3:12

3:12 Then Abner sent messengers² to David saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement³ with me, and I will do whatever I can⁴ to cause all Israel to turn to you.”

2 Samuel 7:14

7:14 I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God,⁵

for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,

arranged in all its particulars and secured.

He always delivers me,

and brings all I desire to fruition.⁶

2 Samuel 22:42

22:42 They cry out,⁷ but there is no one to help them;⁸

they cry out to the Lord,⁹ but he does not answer them.

2 Samuel 22:51

22:51 He gives his chosen king magnificent victories;¹⁰

he is faithful to his chosen ruler,¹¹

to David and to his descendants forever!”

2 Samuel 24:23

24:23 I, the servant of my lord¹² the king, give it all to the king!” Araunah also told the king, “May the Lord your God show you favor!”

2 Samuel 15:8

15:8 For I made this vow¹³ when I was living in Geshur in Aram: ‘If the Lord really does allow me to return to Jerusalem,¹⁴ I will serve the Lord.’”

2 Samuel 3:39

3:39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear!¹⁵ May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!”¹⁶

2 Samuel 20:6

20:6 Then David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bicri will cause greater disaster for us than Absalom did! Take your lord’s servants and pursue him. Otherwise he will secure¹⁷ fortified cities for himself and get away from us.”

2 Samuel 10:3

10:3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy?¹⁸ No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!”¹⁹

¹tn Heb “he devises plans for the one banished from him not to be banished.”

¹tn The Hebrew text adds here, “on his behalf.”

²tn Heb “cut a covenant.” So also in vv. 13, 21.

³tn Heb “and behold, my hand is with you.”

¹tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

²tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”

¹tc The translation follows one medieval Hebrew ms and the ancient versions in reading the Piel יְשַׁוְּעוּ (yÿshavvÿ’u, “they cry for help”) rather than the Qal of the MT יִשְׁעוּ (yish’u, “they look about for help”). See Ps 18:41 as well.

²tn Heb “but there is no deliverer.”

³tn The words “they cry out” are not in the Hebrew text. This reference to the psalmists’ enemies crying out for help to the Lord suggests that the psalmist refers here to enemies within the covenant community, rather than foreigners. However, the militaristic context suggests foreign enemies are in view. Ancient Near Eastern literature indicates that defeated enemies would sometimes cry out for mercy to the god(s) of their conqueror. See R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 271.

¹tc The translation follows the Kethib and the ancient versions in reading מַגְדִּיל (magdil, “he magnifies”) rather than the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss of the MT which read מִגְדּוֹל (migdol, “tower”). See Ps 18:50.

²tn Heb “[the one who] does loyalty to his anointed one.”

¹tc The Hebrew text is difficult here. The translation reads עֶבֶד אֲדֹנָי (’eved ’adoni, “the servant of my lord”) rather than the MT’s אֲרַוְנָה (’Aravnah). In normal court etiquette a subject would not use his own name in this way, but would more likely refer to himself in the third person. The MT probably first sustained loss of עֶבֶד (’eved, “servant”), leading to confusion of the word for “my lord” with the name of the Jebusite referred to here.

¹tn Heb “for your servant vowed a vow.” The formal court style of referring to one’s self in third person (“your servant”) has been translated here as first person for clarity.

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¹tn Heb “are hard from me.”

²tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).

¹tn Heb “find.” The perfect verbal form is unexpected with the preceding word “otherwise.” We should probably read instead the imperfect. Although it is possible to understand the perfect here as indicating that the feared result is thought of as already having taken place (cf. BDB 814 s.v. פֶּן 2), it is more likely that the perfect is simply the result of scribal error. In this context the imperfect would be more consistent with the following verb וְהִצִּיל (vÿhitsil, “and he will get away”).

¹tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

²tn Heb “Is it not to explore the city and to spy on it and to overthrow it [that] David has sent his servants to you?”