2 Samuel 4:12

4:12 So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them ¹  near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth ²  and buried it in the tomb of Abner ³  in Hebron. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 5:3

5:3 When all the leaders ⁵  of Israel came to the king at Hebron, King David made an agreement with them ⁶  in Hebron before the Lord. They designated ⁷  David as king over Israel.

2 Samuel 7:29

7:29 Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty ⁸  so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!” ⁹ 

2 Samuel 10:19

10:19 When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer ¹⁰  saw they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subjects of Israel. ¹¹  The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 11:27

11:27 When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. ¹²  She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the Lord. ¹³ 

2 Samuel 12:31

12:31 He removed ¹⁴  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 ¹⁵  with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem. ¹⁶ 

2 Samuel 13:22

13:22 But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 14:17

14:17 So your servant said, ‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the Lord your God be with you!’”

2 Samuel 14:30

14:30 So he said to his servants, “Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.” ¹⁷  So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s ¹⁸  portion of the field on fire.

2 Samuel 14:33

14:33 So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king ¹⁹  summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom ²⁰  bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him. ²¹ 

2 Samuel 17:13

17:13 If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”

2 Samuel 19:28

19:28 After all, there was no one in the entire house of my grandfather ²²  who did not deserve death from my lord the king. But instead you allowed me to eat at your own table! ²³  What further claim do I have to ask ²⁴  the king for anything?”

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 ²⁵  that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers ²⁶  for the land.

2 Samuel 21:17

21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying, “You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”

2 Samuel 24:17

24:17 When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the Lord, “Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep – what have they done? Attack me and my family.” ²⁷ 

¹ tn The antecedent of the pronoun “them” (which is not present in the Hebrew text, but implied) is not entirely clear. Presumably it is the corpses that were hung and not merely the detached hands and feet; cf. NIV “hung the (their NRSV, NLT) bodies”; the alternative is represented by TEV “cut off their hands and feet, which they hung up.”

² tc 4QSam^a mistakenly reads “Mephibosheth” here.

³ tc The LXX adds “the son of Ner” by conformity with common phraseology elsewhere.

⁴ tc Some mss of the LXX lack the phrase “in Hebron.”

⁵ tn Heb “elders.”

⁶ tn Heb “and the king, David, cut for them a covenant.”

⁷ tn Heb “anointed.”

⁹ tn Heb “house” (again later in this verse). See the note on “dynastic house” in v. 27.

¹⁰ tn Or “permanently”; cf. NLT “it is an eternal blessing.”

¹³ tn Heb “the servants of Hadadezer.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and they served them.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “David sent and gathered her to his house.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of the Lord.” Note the verbal connection with v. 25. Though David did not regard the matter as evil, the Lord certainly did.

²¹ tn Heb “brought out.”

²² tn Heb “and so he would do.”

²³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²⁵ tc The LXX adds here the following words: “And the servants of Absalom burned them up. And the servants of Joab came to him, rending their garments. They said….”

²⁶ tn The word “Joab’s” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²⁹ tn Heb “he.” Joab, acting on behalf of the king, may be the implied subject.

³⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

³³ tn Heb “father.”

³⁴ tn Heb “and you placed your servant among those who eat at your table.”

³⁵ tn Heb “to cry out to.”

³⁷ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have here כְּכֹל (kÿkhol, “according to all”).

³⁸ 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).

⁴¹ tn Heb “let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.”