2 Samuel 1:4

1:4 David inquired, “How were things going? ¹  Tell me!” He replied, “The people fled from the battle and many of them ²  fell dead. ³  Even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead!”

2 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Then Abner spoke privately ⁴  with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately ⁵  of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 5:2

5:2 In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. ⁷  The Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”

2 Samuel 15:19

15:19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you come with us? Go back and stay with the new ⁸  king, for you are a foreigner and an exile from your own country. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 16:23

16:23 In those days Ahithophel’s advice was considered as valuable as a prophetic revelation. ¹⁰  Both David and Absalom highly regarded the advice of Ahithophel. ¹¹ 

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “What was the word?”

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “from the people.”

[1:4]  ³ tn Heb “fell and died.”

[3:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “into the ears of.”

[3:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”

[3:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin.”

[5:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “you were the one leading out and the one leading in Israel.”

[15:19]  ¹⁰ tn The word “new” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation to make it clear that David refers to Absalom, not himself.

[15:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “place.”

[16:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “And the advice of Ahithophel which he advised in those days was as when one inquires of the word of God.”

[16:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “So was all the advice of Ahithophel, also to David, also to Absalom.”