Discovery Box2 Samuel 13:28
Context13:28 Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk 1 and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!” 2
2 Samuel 16:21
Context16:21 Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Have sex with 3 your father’s concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you.” 4
2 Samuel 19:37
Context19:37 Let me 5 return so that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But look, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever seems appropriate to you.”
2 Samuel 20:3
Context20:3 Then David went to his palace 6 in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. 7 Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. 8 They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.
2 Samuel 24:17
Context24:17 When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the Lord, “Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep – what have they done? Attack me and my family.” 9
[13:28] 1 tn Heb “when good is the heart of Amnon with wine.”
[13:28] 2 tn Heb “and become sons of valor.”
[16:21] 3 tn Heb “go to”; NAB “have (+ sexual NCV) relations with”; TEV “have intercourse with”; NLT “Go and sleep with.”
[16:21] 4 tn Heb “and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
[19:37] 5 tn Heb “your servant.”
[20:3] 8 tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”
[20:3] 9 tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”
[24:17] 9 tn Heb “let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.”
