2 Samuel 5:2

5:2 In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. ¹  The Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”

2 Samuel 7:7

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say ²  to any of the leaders ³  whom I appointed to care for ⁴  my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

2 Samuel 21:2

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 ⁵  them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

¹ tn Heb “you were the one leading out and the one leading in Israel.”

² tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.

³ tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”

⁴ tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).

³ tn Heb “swore an oath to.”