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 ¹  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 7:23

7:23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation ²  on the earth? Their God ³  went ⁴  to claim ⁵  a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, ⁶  before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 9:3

9:3 The king asked, “Is there not someone left from Saul’s family, ⁸  that I may extend God’s kindness to him?” Ziba said to the king, “One of Jonathan’s sons is left; both of his feet are crippled.”

2 Samuel 14:14

14:14 Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ¹⁰  God will punish me severely, ¹¹  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

2 Samuel 21:14

21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything ¹²  that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers ¹³  for the land.

¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

² tn Heb “a nation, one.”

³ tn Heb “whose God” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.

⁵ tn Heb “redeem.”

⁶ tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.”

⁷ tn Heb “from Egypt, nations and their gods.” The LXX has “nations and tents,” which reflects a mistaken metathesis of letters in אֶלֹהָיו (e’lohav, “its gods”) and אֹהָלָיו (’ohalav, “its tents”).

³ tn Heb “house.”

⁴ tn Heb “he devises plans for the one banished from him not to be banished.”

⁵ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

⁶ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

⁶ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have here כְּכֹל (kÿkhol, “according to all”).

⁷ tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).