2 Samuel 5:6

David Occupies Jerusalem

5:6 Then the king and his men advanced to Jerusalem ¹  against the Jebusites who lived in the land. The Jebusites ²  said to David, “You cannot invade this place! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back, saying, ‘David cannot invade this place!’”

2 Samuel 11:10

11:10 So they informed David, “Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven’t you gone down to your house?”

2 Samuel 17:22

17:22 So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. ³  By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.

2 Samuel 18:20

18:20 But Joab said to him, “You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today, ⁴  for the king’s son is dead.”

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, ⁵ 

for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,

arranged in all its particulars and secured.

He always delivers me,

and brings all I desire to fruition. ⁶ 

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

² tn The Hebrew text has “he” rather than “the Jebusites.” The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In the Syriac Peshitta and some mss of the Targum the verb is plural rather than singular.

³ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text here or in v. 24, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “but this day you will not bear good news.”

⁷ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

⁸ tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”