2 Samuel 16:17

16:17 Absalom said to Hushai, “Do you call this loyalty to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

2 Samuel 2:5

2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness 1  to your lord Saul by burying him.

2 Samuel 3:8

3:8 These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating 2  loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives 3  and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today! 4 

2 Samuel 10:2

10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty 5  to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal 6  to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. 7  When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 15:6

15:6 Absalom acted this way toward everyone in Israel who came to the king for justice. In this way Absalom won the loyalty 8  of the citizens 9  of Israel.

1 tn Or “loyalty.”

1 tn Heb “I do.”

2 tn Heb “brothers.”

3 tn Heb “and you have laid upon me the guilt of the woman today.”

1 tn Heb “do loyalty.”

2 tn Heb “did loyalty.”

3 tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”

1 tn Heb “stole the heart.”

2 tn Heb “the men.”