2 Samuel 3:8

3:8 These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating¹ loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives² and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today!³

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 against⁴ Saul and his descendants!”

2 Samuel 8:10

8:10 he⁵ sent his son Joram⁶ to King David to extend his best wishes⁷ and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Toi had been at war with Hadadezer.⁸ He brought with him various items made of silver, gold, and bronze.⁹

2 Samuel 10:6

10:6 When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them,¹⁰ they¹¹ sent and hired 20,000 foot soldiers from Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah,¹² in addition to 1,000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob.¹³

2 Samuel 11:11

11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations¹⁴ with my wife? As surely as you are alive,¹⁵ I will not do this thing!”

2 Samuel 12:18

12:18 On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said, “While the child was still alive he would not listen to us¹⁶ when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!”¹⁷

2 Samuel 13:32

13:32 Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, said, “My lord should not say, ‘They have killed all the young men who are the king’s sons.’ For only Amnon is dead. This is what Absalom has talked about¹⁸ from the day that Amnon¹⁹ humiliated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Then King David sent a message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests saying, “Tell the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back to his palace,²⁰ when everything Israel is saying has come to the king’s attention.²¹

2 Samuel 19:43

19:43 The men of Israel replied to the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and we have a greater claim on David than you do! Why do you want²² to curse us? Weren’t we the first to suggest bringing back our king?” But the comments of the men of Judah were more severe than those of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 20:21

20:21 That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled²³ against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute²⁴ his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he²⁵ went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan²⁶ from the leaders²⁷ of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken²⁸ them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines²⁹ publicly exposed their corpses³⁰ after³¹ they³² had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

2 Samuel 24:13

24:13 Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven³³ years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide³⁴ what I should tell the one who sent me.”

¹tn Heb “I do.”

²tn Heb “brothers.”

³tn Heb “and you have laid upon me the guilt of the woman today.”

⁴tn Heb “from.”

⁷tn Heb “Toi.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸tn The name appears as “Hadoram” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:10.

⁹tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.”

¹¹tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”

¹⁰tn Heb “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”

¹¹tn Heb “the Ammonites.”

¹²tn Or “Arameans of Beth Rehob and Arameans of Zobah.”

¹³tn Or perhaps “the men of Tob.” The ancient versions (the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) understand the name to be “Ish-tob.” It is possible that “Ish” is dittographic and that we should read simply “Tob,” a reading adopted by a number of recent English versions.

¹³tn Heb “and lay.”

¹⁴tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”

¹⁶tn Heb “to our voice.”

¹⁷tn Heb “he will do harm.” The object is not stated in the Hebrew text. The statement may be intentionally vague, meaning that he might harm himself or them!

¹⁹tn Heb “it was placed on the mouth of Absalom.”

²⁰tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amnon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²²tn Heb “his house.”

²³tc The Hebrew text adds “to his house” (= palace), but the phrase, which also appears earlier in the verse, is probably accidentally repeated here.

²⁵tn The translation understands the verb in a desiderative sense, indicating the desire but not necessarily the completed action of the party in question. It is possible, however, that the verb should be given the more common sense of accomplished action, in which case it means here “Why have you cursed us?”

²⁸tn Heb “lifted his hand.”

²⁹tn Heb “Look!”

³¹tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

³²tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

³³tn Heb “lords.”

³⁴tn Heb “stolen.”

³⁵tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

³⁶tn Heb “had hung them.”

³⁷tn Heb “in the day.”

³⁸tn Heb “Philistines.”

³⁴tc The LXX has here “three” rather than “seven,” and is followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT. See 1 Chr 21:12.

³⁵tn Heb “now know and see.”