2 Samuel 3:17

3:17 Abner advised 1  the elders of Israel, “Previously you were wanting David to be your king. 2 

2 Samuel 12:16

12:16 Then David prayed to 3  God for the child and fasted. 4  He would even 5  go and spend the night lying on the ground.

2 Samuel 17:3

17:3 and will bring the entire army back to you. In exchange for the life of the man you are seeking, you will get back everyone. 6  The entire army will return unharmed.” 7 

2 Samuel 20:19

20:19 I represent the peaceful and the faithful in Israel. You are attempting to destroy an important city 8  in Israel. Why should you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”

2 Samuel 4:11

4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept 9  in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove 10  you from the earth?”

2 Samuel 5:17

Conflict with the Philistines

5:17 When the Philistines heard that David had been designated 11  king over Israel, they all 12  went up to search for David. When David heard about it, he went down to the fortress.

2 Samuel 16:11

16:11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son, my very own flesh and blood, 13  is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the Lord has spoken to him.

2 Samuel 17:20

17:20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men 14  searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. 15 

2 Samuel 21:1-2

The Gibeonites Demand Revenge

21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 16  The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 17  because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to 18  them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

2 Samuel 4:8

4:8 They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against 19  Saul and his descendants!”

1 tn Heb “the word of Abner was with.”

2 tn Heb “you were seeking David to be king over you.”

3 tn Heb “sought” or “searched for.”

4 tn Heb “and David fasted.”

5 tn The three Hebrew verbs that follow in this verse are perfects with prefixed vav. They may describe repeated past actions or actions which accompanied David’s praying and fasting.

5 tc Heb “like the returning of all, the man whom you are seeking.” The LXX reads differently: “And I will return all the people to you the way a bride returns to her husband, except for the life of the one man whom you are seeking.” The other early versions also struggled with this verse. Modern translations are divided as well: the NAB, NRSV, REB, and NLT follow the LXX, while the NASB and NIV follow the Hebrew text.

6 tn Heb “all of the people will be safe.”

7 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.

9 tn Heb “on his bed.”

10 tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”

11 tn Heb “anointed.”

12 tn Heb “all the Philistines.”

13 tn Heb “who came out from my entrails.” David’s point is that is his own son, his child whom he himself had fathered, was now wanting to kill him.

15 tn Heb “they”; the referents (Absalom’s men) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

17 tn Heb “sought the face of the Lord.”

18 tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”

19 tn Heb “swore an oath to.”

21 tn Heb “from.”