2 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Then Abner spoke privately ¹  with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately ²  of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. ³ 

2 Samuel 3:21

3:21 Abner said to David, “Let me leave so that I may go and gather all Israel to my lord the king so that they may make an agreement ⁴  with you. Then you will rule over all that you desire.” So David sent Abner away, and he left in peace.

2 Samuel 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ⁵  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 7:7

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say ⁶  to any of the leaders ⁷  whom I appointed to care for ⁸  my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

2 Samuel 12:31

12:31 He removed ⁹  the people who were in it and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy ¹⁰  with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem. ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 15:24

15:24 Zadok and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. When they positioned the ark of God, Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving ¹²  the city.

2 Samuel 16:21

16:21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Have sex with ¹³  your father’s concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you.” ¹⁴ 

2 Samuel 18:5

18:5 The king gave this order to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake deal gently with the young man Absalom.” Now the entire army was listening when the king gave all the leaders this order concerning Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:8-9

19:8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they ¹⁵  all came before him.

David Goes Back to Jerusalem

But the Israelite soldiers ¹⁶  had all fled to their own homes. ¹⁷  19:9 All the people throughout all the tribes of Israel were arguing among themselves saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies. He rescued us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:41

19:41 Then all the men of Israel began coming to the king. They asked the king, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, sneak the king away and help the king and his household cross the Jordan – and not only him but all of David’s men as well?”

2 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa ¹⁸  stopped, the man ¹⁹  pulled him ²⁰  away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

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.”

⁴ tn After the cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.

⁷ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.

¹¹ tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”

¹² tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).

¹³ tn Heb “brought out.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and so he would do.”

¹⁵ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁶ tn Heb “crossing from.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “go to”; NAB “have (+ sexual NCV) relations with”; TEV “have intercourse with”; NLT “Go and sleep with.”

²⁰ tn Heb “and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

²² tn Heb “all the people.”

²³ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” (see 18:16-17).

²⁴ tn Heb “had fled, each to his tent.”

²⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man who spoke up in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁷ tn Heb “Amasa.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.