2 Samuel 3:1

3:1 However, the war was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David. David was becoming steadily stronger, while the house of Saul was becoming increasingly weaker.

2 Samuel 3:6

Abner Defects to David’s Camp

3:6 As the war continued between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was becoming more influential ¹  in the house of Saul.

2 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Then Abner spoke privately ²  with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately ³  of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 4:6

4:6 They ⁵  entered the house under the pretense of getting wheat and mortally wounded him ⁶  in the stomach. Then Recab and his brother Baanah escaped.

2 Samuel 6:6

6:6 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, ⁷  Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of ⁸  the ark of God, ⁹  because the oxen stumbled.

2 Samuel 6:22

6:22 I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! ¹⁰  But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!”

2 Samuel 10:4

10:4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, ¹¹  and then sent them away.

2 Samuel 11:24

11:24 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall and some of the king’s soldiers ¹²  died. Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”

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 13:36

13:36 Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived, wailing and weeping. ¹³  The king and all his servants wept loudly ¹⁴  as well.

2 Samuel 17:19

17:19 His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.

2 Samuel 19:2

19:2 So the victory of that day was turned to mourning as far as all the people were concerned. For the people heard on that day, “The king is grieved over his son.”

¹ tn Heb “was strengthening himself.” The statement may have a negative sense here, perhaps suggesting that Abner was overstepping the bounds of political propriety in a self-serving way.

¹ tn Heb “into the ears of.”

² tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”

³ tn Heb “all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin.”

¹ tc For the MT’s וְהֵנָּה (vÿhennah, “and they,” feminine) read וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and behold”). See the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Targum.

² tn Heb “and they struck him down.”

¹ tn 1 Chr 13:9 has “Kidon.”

² tn Or “steadied.”

³ tn Heb “and Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and grabbed it.”

¹ tn Heb “and I will shame myself still more than this and I will be lowly in my eyes.”

¹ tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto their buttocks.”

¹ tc The translation follows the Qere (“your servants”) rather than the Kethib (“your servant”).

¹ tn Heb “and they lifted their voice and wept.”

² tn Heb “with a great weeping.”