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.

2 Samuel 23:19

23:19 From ¹  the three he was given honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of the three.

2 Samuel 3:10

3:10 namely, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah all the way from Dan to Beer Sheba!”

2 Samuel 7:6

7:6 I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent. ² 

2 Samuel 14:25

14:25 Now in all Israel everyone acknowledged that there was no man as handsome as Absalom. ³  From the sole of his feet to the top of his head he was perfect in appearance. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 20:2

20:2 So all the men of Israel deserted ⁵  David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River ⁶  to Jerusalem. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 2:26

2:26 Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”

2 Samuel 6:19

6:19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, ⁸  both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, ⁹  and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home. ¹⁰ 

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 17:11

17:11 My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba – in number like the sand by the sea! – be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.

2 Samuel 24:2

24:2 The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.”

¹ tn Or “more than.”

¹ tn Heb “in a tent and in a dwelling.” The expression is a hendiadys, using two terms to express one idea.

¹ tn Heb “Like Absalom there was not a handsome man in all Israel to boast exceedingly.”

² tn Heb “there was not in him a blemish.”

¹ tn Heb “went up from after.”

² tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

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¹ tn Heb “to all the people, to all the throng of Israel.”

² tn The Hebrew word used here אֶשְׁפָּר (’espar) is found in the OT only here and in the parallel passage found in 1 Chr 16:3. Its exact meaning is uncertain, although the context indicates that it was a food of some sort (cf. KJV “a good piece of flesh”; NRSV “a portion of meat”). The translation adopted here (“date cake”) follows the lead of the Greek translations of the LXX, Aquila, and Symmachus (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

³ tn Heb “and all the people went, each to his house.”