2 Samuel 6:3

6:3 They loaded the ark of God on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart.

2 Samuel 7:26-27

7:26 so you may gain lasting fame, ¹  as people say, ²  ‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel!’ The dynasty ³  of your servant David will be established before you, 7:27 for you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have told ⁴  your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ ⁵  That is why your servant has had the courage ⁶  to pray this prayer to you.

2 Samuel 12:7

12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose ⁷  you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 15:25

15:25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.

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 ⁸  that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers ⁹  for the land.

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, ¹⁰ 

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. ¹¹ 

¹ tn Heb “and your name might be great permanently.” Following the imperative in v. 23b, the prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result.

² tn Heb “saying.” The words “as people” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “the house.” See the note on “dynastic house” in the following verse.

¹ tn Heb “have uncovered the ear of.”

² tn Heb “a house.” This maintains the wordplay from v. 11 (see the note on the word “house” there) and is continued in v. 29.

³ tn Heb “has found his heart.”

¹ tn Heb “anointed.”

¹ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have here כְּכֹל (kÿkhol, “according to all”).

² 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).

¹ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

² tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”