2 Samuel 2:27-28

2:27 Joab replied, “As surely as God lives, if you had not said this, it would have been morning before the people would have abandoned pursuit ¹  of their brothers!” 2:28 Then Joab blew the ram’s horn and all the people stopped in their tracks. ²  They stopped chasing Israel and ceased fighting. ³ 

2 Samuel 2:30

2:30 Now Joab returned from chasing Abner and assembled all the people. Nineteen of David’s soldiers were missing, in addition to Asahel.

2 Samuel 3:32

3:32 So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly ⁴  over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too.

2 Samuel 3:34

3:34 Your hands ⁵  were not bound,

and your feet were not put into irons.

You fell the way one falls before criminals.”

All the people ⁶  wept over him again.

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. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 11:17

11:17 When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David’s soldiers ⁸  fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died.

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 16:6

16:6 He threw stones at David and all of King David’s servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.

2 Samuel 17:2

17:2 When I catch up with ¹⁰  him he will be exhausted and worn out. ¹¹  I will rout him, and the entire army that is with him will flee. I will kill only the king

2 Samuel 17:29

17:29 honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. ¹²  For they said, “The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.” ¹³ 

2 Samuel 18:4

18:4 Then the king said to them, “I will do whatever seems best to you.”

So the king stayed beside the city gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

2 Samuel 19:39

19:39 So all the people crossed the Jordan, as did the king. After the king had kissed him and blessed him, Barzillai returned to his home. ¹⁴ 

2 Samuel 24:15

24:15 So the Lord sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba.

¹ tn The Hebrew verb נַעֲלָה (na’alah) used here is the Niphal perfect 3rd person masculine singular of עָלָה (’alah, “to go up”). In the Niphal this verb “is used idiomatically, of getting away from so as to abandon…especially of an army raising a siege…” (see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 244).

² tn Heb “stood.”

³ tn Heb “they no longer chased after Israel and they no longer fought.”

³ tn Heb “lifted up his voice and wept.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

⁴ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”

⁵ tc 4QSam^a lacks the words “all the people.”

⁵ tn Heb “from the king.”

⁶ tn Heb “some of the people from the servants of David.”

⁷ tn Heb “people.” So also in vv. 29, 31.

⁸ tn Heb “and I will come upon him.”

⁹ tn Heb “exhausted and slack of hands.”

⁹ tn Heb “cheese of the herd,” probably referring to cheese from cow’s milk (rather than goat’s milk).

¹⁰ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, NLT).

¹⁰ tn Heb “to his place.”