2 Samuel 2:17

2:17 Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers. ¹ 

2 Samuel 3:16

3:16 Her husband went along behind her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Finally Abner said to him, “Go back!” ²  So he returned home.

2 Samuel 3:28

3:28 When David later heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!

2 Samuel 4:6

4:6 They ³  entered the house under the pretense of getting wheat and mortally wounded him ⁴  in the stomach. Then Recab and his brother Baanah escaped.

2 Samuel 5:25

5:25 David did just as the Lord commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Gibeon all the way to Gezer. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 6:6

6:6 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, ⁶  Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of ⁷  the ark of God, ⁸  because the oxen stumbled.

2 Samuel 6:8

6:8 David was angry because the Lord attacked ⁹  Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, ¹⁰  which remains its name to this very day.

2 Samuel 7:18

David Offers a Prayer to God

7:18 King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, ¹¹  that you should have brought me to this point?

2 Samuel 7:24-26

7:24 You made Israel your very own people for all time. ¹²  You, O Lord, became their God. 7:25 So now, O Lord God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality. ¹³  Do as you promised, ¹⁴  7:26 so you may gain lasting fame, ¹⁵  as people say, ¹⁶  ‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel!’ The dynasty ¹⁷  of your servant David will be established before you,

2 Samuel 10:4-5

10:4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, ¹⁸  and then sent them away. 10:5 Messengers ¹⁹  told David what had happened, ²⁰  so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho ²¹  until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.”

2 Samuel 11:23

11:23 The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and attacked us ²²  in the field. But we forced them to retreat all the way ²³  to the door of the city gate.

2 Samuel 12:10

12:10 So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’

2 Samuel 15:32

15:32 When David reached the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite met him with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

2 Samuel 19:15

19:15 So the king returned and came to the Jordan River. ²⁴ 

Now the people of Judah ²⁵  had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him ²⁶  cross the Jordan.

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 “servants.” So also elsewhere.

² tn Heb “Go, return.”

³ tc For the MT’s וְהֵנָּה (vÿhennah, “and they,” feminine) read וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and behold”). See the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Targum.

⁴ tn Heb “and they struck him down.”

⁴ tn Heb “from Gibeon until you enter Gezer.”

⁵ tn 1 Chr 13:9 has “Kidon.”

⁶ tn Or “steadied.”

⁷ tn Heb “and Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and grabbed it.”

⁶ tn Heb “because the Lord broke out [with] a breaking out [i.e., an outburst] against Uzzah.”

⁷ sn The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”

⁷ tn Heb “house.”

⁸ tn Heb “and you established for yourself your people Israel for yourself for a people permanently.”

⁹ tn Heb “and now, O Lord God, the word which you spoke concerning your servant and concerning his house, establish permanently.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “as you have spoken.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and your name might be great permanently.” Following the imperative in v. 23b, the prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result.

¹¹ tn Heb “saying.” The words “as people” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

¹² tn Heb “the house.” See the note on “dynastic house” in the following verse.

¹¹ tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto their buttocks.”

¹² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn The words “what had happened” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁴ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

¹³ tn Heb “and came out to us.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “but we were on them.”

¹⁴ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Judah.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “the king.” The pronoun (“him”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.