2 Samuel 2:7

2:7 Now be courageous ¹  and prove to be valiant warriors, for your lord Saul is dead. The people of Judah have anointed me as king over them.”

2 Samuel 2:9

2:9 He appointed him king over Gilead, the Geshurites, ²  Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all Israel.

2 Samuel 3:30

3:30 So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.

2 Samuel 3:32

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

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. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 3:39

3:39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear! ⁵  May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!” ⁶ 

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. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 9:13

9:13 Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, ⁸  for he was a regular guest at the king’s table. But both his feet were crippled.

2 Samuel 13:33

13:33 Now don’t let my lord the king be concerned about the report that has come saying, ‘All the king’s sons are dead.’ It is only Amnon who is dead.”

2 Samuel 14:27

14:27 Absalom had ⁹  three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a very attractive woman. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 15:6

15:6 Absalom acted this way toward everyone in Israel who came to the king for justice. In this way Absalom won the loyalty ¹¹  of the citizens ¹²  of Israel.

2 Samuel 16:13

16:13 So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them. ¹³ 

2 Samuel 16:19

16:19 Moreover, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? Just as I served your father, so I will serve you.” ¹⁴ 

2 Samuel 20:19

20:19 I represent the peaceful and the faithful in Israel. You are attempting to destroy an important city ¹⁵  in Israel. Why should you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”

2 Samuel 21:18

21:18 Later there was another battle with the Philistines, this time in Gob. On that occasion Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was one of the descendants of Rapha.

¹ tn Heb “let your hands be strong.”

² tc The MT here reads “the Ashurite,” but this is problematic if it is taken to mean “the Assyrian.” Ish-bosheth’s kingdom obviously was not of such proportions as to extend to Assyria. The Syriac Peshitta renders the word as “the Geshurite,” while the Targum has “of the house of Ashur.” We should probably emend the Hebrew text to read “the Geshurite.” The Geshurites lived in the northeastern part of the land of Palestine.

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

⁴ tn Heb “from the king.”

⁵ tn Heb “are hard from me.”

⁶ tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).

⁶ tn Heb “from Gibeon until you enter Gezer.”

⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁸ tn Heb “and there were born.”

⁹ tc The LXX adds here the following words: “And she became a wife to Rehoboam the son of Solomon and bore to him Abia.”

⁹ tn Heb “stole the heart.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the men.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he cursed and threw stones, opposite him, pelting [them] with dirt.” The offline vÿqatal construction in the last clause indicates an action that was complementary to the action described in the preceding clause. He simultaneously threw stones and dirt.

¹¹ tn Heb “Just as I served before your father, so I will be before you.”

¹² tn Heb “a city and a mother.” The expression is a hendiadys, meaning that this city was an important one in Israel and had smaller cities dependent on it.