2 Samuel 22:47

22:47 The Lord is alive!¹

My protector² is praiseworthy!³

The God who delivers me⁴ is exalted as king!⁵

2 Samuel 6:18

6:18 When David finished offering the burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.

2 Samuel 7:29

7:29 Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty⁶ so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!”⁷

2 Samuel 6:11

6:11 The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his family.⁸

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.⁹

2 Samuel 21:3

21:3 David said to the Gibeonites, “What can I do for you, and how can I make amends so that you will bless¹⁰ the Lord’s inheritance?”

2 Samuel 2:5

2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness¹¹ to your lord Saul by burying him.

2 Samuel 6:12

6:12 David was told,¹² “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house,¹³ Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him.¹⁴ She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished¹⁵ himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool¹⁶ might do!”

2 Samuel 13:25

13:25 But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son. We shouldn’t all go. We shouldn’t burden you in that way.” Though Absalom¹⁷ pressed¹⁸ him, the king¹⁹ was not willing to go. Instead, David²⁰ blessed him.

2 Samuel 14:22

14:22 Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground and thanked²¹ the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, because the king has granted the request of your²² servant!”

2 Samuel 18:28

18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!”²³ He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated²⁴ the men who opposed²⁵ my lord the king!”

2 Samuel 8:10

8:10 he²⁶ sent his son Joram²⁷ to King David to extend his best wishes²⁸ and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Toi had been at war with Hadadezer.²⁹ He brought with him various items made of silver, gold, and bronze.³⁰

¹tn Elsewhere the construction חַי־יְהוָה (khay-yÿhvah) as used exclusively as an oath formula, but this is not the case here, for no oath follows. Here the statement is an affirmation of the Lord’s active presence and intervention. In contrast to pagan deities, he demonstrates that he is the living God by rescuing and empowering the psalmist.

²tn Heb “my rocky cliff,” which is a metaphor for protection.

³tn Or “blessed [i.e., praised] be.”

⁴tn Heb “the God of the rock of my deliverance.” The term צוּר (tsur, “rock”) is probably accidentally repeated from the previous line. The parallel version in Ps 18:46 has simply “the God of my deliverance.”

⁵tn The words “as king” are supplied in the translation for clarification. In the Psalms the verb רוּם (rum, “be exalted”) when used of God, refers to his exalted position as king (Pss 99:2; 113:4; 138:6) and/or his self-revelation as king through his mighty deeds of deliverance (Pss 21:13; 46:10; 57:5, 11).

⁶tn Heb “house” (again later in this verse). See the note on “dynastic house” in v. 27.

⁷tn Or “permanently”; cf. NLT “it is an eternal blessing.”

¹¹tn Heb “house,” both here and in v. 12.

¹⁶tn Heb “to his place.”

²¹tn After the preceding imperfect verbal form, the subordinated imperative indicates purpose/result. S. R. Driver comments, “…the imper. is used instead of the more normal voluntative, for the purpose of expressing with somewhat greater force the intention of the previous verb” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 350).

²⁶tn Or “loyalty.”

³¹tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”

³⁶tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

³⁷tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³⁸tn Heb “honored.”

³⁹tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

⁴¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴²tc Here and in v. 27 the translation follows 4QSam^a ויצפר (vayyitspar, “and he pressed”) rather than the MT וַיִּפְרָץ (vayyiprats, “and he broke through”). This emended reading seems also to underlie the translations of the LXX (καὶ ἐβιάσατο, kai ebiasato), the Syriac Peshitta (we’alseh), and Vulgate (cogeret eum).

⁴³tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴⁶tn Heb “blessed.”

⁴⁷tc The present translation reads with the Qere “your” rather than the MT “his.”

⁵¹tn Heb “Peace.”

⁵²tn Heb “delivered over.”

⁵³tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”

⁵⁶tn Heb “Toi.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵⁷tn The name appears as “Hadoram” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:10.

⁵⁸tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

⁵⁹tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.”

⁶⁰tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”