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 3:37

3:37 All the people and all Israel realized on that day that the killing of Abner son of Ner was not done at the king’s instigation. ² 

2 Samuel 11:12

11:12 So David said to Uriah, “Stay here another day. Tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem both that day and the following one. ³ 

2 Samuel 18:7-8

18:7 The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. ⁴  The slaughter there was great that day – 20,000 soldiers were killed. 18:8 The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

2 Samuel 19:3

19:3 That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.

2 Samuel 22:1

David Sings to the Lord

22:1 ⁵ David sang ⁶  to the Lord the words of this song when ⁷  the Lord rescued him from the power ⁸  of all his enemies, including Saul. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 24:18

David Acquires a Threshing Floor and Constructs an Altar There

24:18 So Gad went to David that day and told him, “Go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

¹ tn Heb “servants.” So also elsewhere.

² tn Heb “from the king.”

³ tn On the chronology involved here see P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 287.

⁴ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 9).

⁵ sn In this long song of thanks, David affirms that God is his faithful protector. He recalls in highly poetic fashion how God intervened in awesome power and delivered him from death. His experience demonstrates that God vindicates those who are blameless and remain loyal to him. True to his promises, God gives the king victory on the battlefield and enables him to subdue nations. A parallel version of the song appears in Ps 18.

⁶ tn Heb “spoke.”

⁷ tn Heb “in the day,” or “at the time.”

⁸ tn Heb “hand.”

⁹ tn Heb “and from the hand of Saul.”