2 Samuel 10:3

10:3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? ¹  No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!” ² 

2 Samuel 12:31

12:31 He removed ³  the people who were in it and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy ⁴  with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Now Absalom used to get up early and stand beside the road that led to the city gate. Whenever anyone came by who had a complaint to bring to the king for arbitration, Absalom would call out to him, “What city are you from?” The person would answer, “I, your servant, ⁶  am from one of the tribes of Israel.”

2 Samuel 15:14

15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, ⁷  “Come on! ⁸  Let’s escape! ⁹  Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring ¹⁰  disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his ¹²  mule, it ¹³  went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, ¹⁴  while the mule he had been riding kept going.

2 Samuel 19:42

19:42 All the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative! Why are you so upset about this? Have we eaten at the king’s expense? ¹⁵  Or have we misappropriated anything for our own use?”

2 Samuel 24:10

24:10 David felt guilty ¹⁶  after he had numbered the army. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O Lord, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

[10:3]  ¹ tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

[10:3]  ² tn Heb “Is it not to explore the city and to spy on it and to overthrow it [that] David has sent his servants to you?”

[12:31]  ³ tn Heb “brought out.”

[12:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “and so he would do.”

[12:31]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “your servant.” So also in vv. 8, 15, 21.

[15:14]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “Arise!”

[15:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “let’s flee.”

[15:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “thrust.”

[15:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

[18:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “the.”

[18:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the donkey.”

[18:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”

[19:42]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from the king.”

[24:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the heart of David struck him.”