2 Samuel 5:4
5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned for forty years.
2 Samuel 5:10
5:10 David’s power grew steadily, for the
Lord God
1 who commands armies
2 was with him.
3
2 Samuel 5:21
5:21 The Philistines
4 abandoned their idols
5 there, and David and his men picked them up.
2 Samuel 11:5
11:5 The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying, “I’m pregnant.”
2 Samuel 11:18
11:18 Then Joab sent a full battle report to David. 6
2 Samuel 15:37
15:37 So David’s friend Hushai arrived in the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 23:14
23:14 David was in the stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem.
7
2 Samuel 24:19
24:19 So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the
Lord’s instructions.
1 tc 4QSama and the LXX lack the word “God,” probably due to harmonization with the more common biblical phrase “the Lord of hosts.”
2 tn Traditionally, “the Lord God of hosts” (KJV, NASB); NIV, NLT “the Lord God Almighty”; CEV “the Lord (+ God NCV) All-Powerful.”
3 tn The translation assumes that the disjunctive clause is circumstantial-causal, giving the reason for David’s success.
1 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Philistines) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tc For “idols” the LXX and Vulgate have “gods.”
1 tn Heb “Joab sent and related to David all the matters of the battle.”
1 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.