2 Samuel 10:2

10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ¹  to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal ²  to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. ³  When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 16:23

16:23 In those days Ahithophel’s advice was considered as valuable as a prophetic revelation. ⁴  Both David and Absalom highly regarded the advice of Ahithophel. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 17:12

17:12 We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive – not one of them!

2 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa ⁶  stopped, the man ⁷  pulled him ⁸  away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

[10:2]  ¹ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[10:2]  ² tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[10:2]  ³ tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”

[16:23]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “So was all the advice of Ahithophel, also to David, also to Absalom.”

[20:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man who spoke up in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “Amasa.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.