22:20 He brought me out into a wide open place;
he delivered me because he was pleased with me. 1
20:11 One of Joab’s soldiers who stood over Amasa said, “Whoever is for 2 Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!”
23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, 3
for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,
arranged in all its particulars and secured.
He always delivers me,
and brings all I desire to fruition. 4
24:3 Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”
1 tn Or “delighted in me” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “takes delight in.”
3 tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”
4 tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”