Discovery Box2 Samuel 12:16
Context12:16 Then David prayed to 1 God for the child and fasted. 2 He would even 3 go and spend the night lying on the ground.
2 Samuel 12:1
Context12:1 So the Lord sent Nathan 4 to David. When he came to David, 5 Nathan 6 said, 7 “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
2 Samuel 21:1
Context21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 8 The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 9 because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
Jonah 3:5-8
Context3:5 The people 10 of Nineveh believed in God, 11 and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 12 3:6 When the news 13 reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes. 3:7 He issued a proclamation and said, 14 “In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water. 3:8 Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly 15 to God, and everyone 16 must turn from their 17 evil way of living 18 and from the violence that they do. 19
[12:16] 1 tn Heb “sought” or “searched for.”
[12:16] 2 tn Heb “and David fasted.”
[12:16] 3 tn The three Hebrew verbs that follow in this verse are perfects with prefixed vav. They may describe repeated past actions or actions which accompanied David’s praying and fasting.
[12:1] 4 tc A few medieval Hebrew
[12:1] 5 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[12:1] 6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[12:1] 7 tn The Hebrew text repeats “to him.”
[21:1] 8 tn Heb “sought the face of the
[21:1] 9 tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”
[3:5] 10 tn Heb “men.” The term is used generically here for “people” (so KJV, ASV, and many other English versions); cf. NIV “the Ninevites.”
[3:5] 11 sn The people of Nineveh believed in God…. Verse 5 provides a summary of the response in Nineveh; the people of all ranks believed and gave evidence of contrition by fasting and wearing sackcloth (2 Sam 12:16, 19-23; 1 Kgs 21:27-29; Neh 9:1-2). Then vv. 6-9 provide specific details, focusing on the king’s reaction. The Ninevites’ response parallels the response of the pagan sailors in 1:6 and 13-16.
[3:5] 12 tn Heb “from the greatest of them to the least of them.”
[3:6] 13 tn Heb “word” or “matter.”
[3:7] 14 tn Contrary to many modern English versions, the present translation understands the king’s proclamation to begin after the phrase “and he said” (rather than after “in Nineveh”), as do quotations in 1:14; 2:2, 4; 4:2, 8, 9. In Jonah where the quotation does not begin immediately after “said” (אָמַר, ’amar), it is only the speaker or addressee or both that come between “said” and the start of the quotation (1:6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; 4:4, 9, 10; cf. 1:1; 3:1).
[3:8] 15 tn Heb “with strength”; KJV, NRSV “mightily”; NAB, NCV “loudly”; NIV “urgently.”
[3:8] 16 tn Heb “let them turn, a man from his evil way.” The alternation between the plural verb וְיָשֻׁבוּ (vÿyashuvu, “and let them turn”) and the singular noun אִישׁ (’ish, “a man, each one”) and the singular suffix on מִדַּרְכּוֹ (middarko, “from his way”) emphasizes that each and every person in the collective unity is called to repent.
[3:8] 17 tn Heb “his.” See the preceding note on “one.”
[3:8] 18 tn Heb “evil way.” For other examples of “way” as “way of living,” see Judg 2:17; Ps 107:17-22; Prov 4:25-27; 5:21.
[3:8] 19 tn Heb “that is in their hands.” By speaking of the harm they did as “in their hands,” the king recognized the Ninevites’ personal awareness and immediate responsibility. The term “hands” is either a synecdoche of instrument (e.g., “Is not the hand of Joab in all this?” 2 Sam 14:19) or a synecdoche of part for the whole. The king's descriptive figure of speech reinforces their guilt.
