2 Samuel 2:16

2:16 As they grappled with one another, each one stabbed his opponent with his sword and they fell dead together. ¹  So that place is called the Field of Flints; ²  it is in Gibeon.

2 Samuel 5:9

5:9 So David lived in the fortress and called it the City of David. David built all around it, from the terrace inwards.

2 Samuel 6:8

6:8 David was angry because the Lord attacked ³  Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, ⁴  which remains its name to this very day.

2 Samuel 9:2

9:2 Now there was a servant from Saul’s house named Ziba, so he was summoned to David. The king asked him, “Are you Ziba?” He replied, “At your service.” ⁵ 

2 Samuel 9:9

9:9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s attendant, and said to him, “Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master’s grandson.

2 Samuel 11:13

11:13 Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

2 Samuel 12:24

12:24 So David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to her and had marital relations with her. ⁶  She gave birth to a son, and David ⁷  named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved the child ⁸ 

2 Samuel 12:28

12:28 So now assemble the rest of the army ⁹  and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city and it will be named for me.”

2 Samuel 13:17

13:17 He called his personal attendant and said to him, “Take this woman out of my sight ¹⁰  and lock the door behind her!”

2 Samuel 13:23

Absalom Has Amnon Put to Death

13:23 Two years later Absalom’s sheepshearers were in Baal Hazor, ¹¹  near Ephraim. Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

2 Samuel 15:11

15:11 Now two hundred men had gone with Absalom from Jerusalem. Since they were invited, they went naively and were unaware of what Absalom was planning. ¹² 

2 Samuel 18:25

18:25 So the watchman called out and informed the king. The king said, “If he is by himself, he brings good news.” ¹³  The runner ¹⁴  came ever closer.

2 Samuel 20:16

20:16 a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen up! Listen up! Tell Joab, ‘Come near so that I may speak to you.’”

¹ tn Heb “and they grabbed each one the head of his neighbor with his sword in the side of his neighbor and they fell together.”

² tn The meaning of the name “Helkath Hazzurim” (so NIV; KJV, NASB, NRSV similar) is not clear. BHK relates the name to the Hebrew term for “side,” and this is reflected in NAB “the Field of the Sides”; the Greek OT revocalizes the Hebrew to mean something like “Field of Adversaries.” Cf. also TEV, NLT “Field of Swords”; CEV “Field of Daggers.”

³ tn Heb “because the Lord broke out [with] a breaking out [i.e., an outburst] against Uzzah.”

⁴ sn The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”

⁵ tn Heb “your servant.”

⁷ tn Heb “and he lay with her.”

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity. While some translations render the pronoun as third person plural (“they”), implying that both David and Bathsheba together named the child, it is likely that the name “Solomon,” which is related to the Hebrew word for “peace” (and may be derived from it) had special significance for David, who would have regarded the birth of a second child to Bathsheba as a confirming sign that God had forgiven his sin and was at peace with him.

⁹ tn Heb “him,” referring to the child.

⁹ tn Heb “people.” So also in vv. 29, 31.

¹¹ tn Heb “send this [one] from upon me to the outside.”

¹³ map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

¹⁵ tn Heb “being invited and going naively and they did not know anything.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “good news is in his mouth.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the runner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.