2 Samuel 2:21

2:21 Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right or to your left. Capture one of the soldiers ¹  and take his equipment for yourself!” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

2 Samuel 13:22

13:22 But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 14:11

14:11 She replied, “In that case, ²  let the king invoke the name of ³  the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head ⁴  will fall to the ground.”

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. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 17:8

17:8 Hushai went on to say, “You know your father and his men – they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs. ⁶  Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.

2 Samuel 17:12

17:12 We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive – not one of them!

2 Samuel 17:20

17:20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men ⁷  searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 18:29

18:29 The king replied, “How is the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz replied, “I saw a great deal of confusion when Joab was sending the king’s servant and me, your servant, but I don’t know what it was all about.”

2 Samuel 20:1

Sheba’s Rebellion

20:1 Now a wicked man ⁹  named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, ¹⁰  happened to be there. He blew the trumpet ¹¹  and said,

“We have no share in David;

we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!

Every man go home, ¹²  O Israel!”

2 Samuel 20:10

20:10 Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab ¹³  stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s ¹⁴  intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. ¹⁵  Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.

2 Samuel 21:10

21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, ¹⁶  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed ¹⁷  on them by day, nor the wild animals ¹⁸  by night.

2 Samuel 21:17

21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying, “You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”

2 Samuel 23:16

23:16 So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate. They carried it back to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord

2 Samuel 24:24

24:24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it from you! I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.”

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “young men.” So also elsewhere.

² tn The words “in that case” are not in the Hebrew text, but may be inferred from the context. They are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarification.

³ tn Heb “let the king remember.”

⁴ tn Heb “of your son.”

³ tn Heb “he devises plans for the one banished from him not to be banished.”

⁴ tc The LXX (with the exception of the recensions of Origen and Lucian) repeats the description as follows: “Just as a female bear bereft of cubs in a field.”

⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referents (Absalom’s men) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

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⁶ tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”

⁷ tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.

⁸ tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.

⁹ tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “and he did not repeat concerning him, and he died.”

⁸ tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”

⁹ tn Heb “rest.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”

⁹ tn Heb “fifty shekels of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.