2 Samuel 14:23

14:23 So Joab got up and went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem. ¹ 

2 Samuel 15:9

15:9 The king replied to him, “Go in peace.” So Absalom ²  got up and went to Hebron.

2 Samuel 13:31

13:31 Then the king stood up and tore his garments and lay down on the ground. All his servants were standing there with torn garments as well.

2 Samuel 24:11

24:11 When David got up the next morning, the Lord had already spoken ³  to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

2 Samuel 14:31

14:31 Then Joab got up and came to Absalom’s house. He said to him, “Why did your servants set my portion of field on fire?”

2 Samuel 6:2

6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled ⁴  to ⁵  Baalah ⁶  in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name ⁷  of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

2 Samuel 11:2

11:2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. ⁸  From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 12:20

12:20 So David got up from the ground, bathed, put on oil, and changed his clothes. He went to the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then, when he entered his palace, he requested that food be brought to him, and he ate.

2 Samuel 17:22-23

17:22 So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. ¹⁰  By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.

17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave ¹¹  of his father.

2 Samuel 19:8

19:8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they ¹²  all came before him.

David Goes Back to Jerusalem

But the Israelite soldiers ¹³  had all fled to their own homes. ¹⁴ 

[14:23]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:9]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:11]  ³ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came.”

[6:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “arose and went.”

[6:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.

[6:2]  ⁶ tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).

[6:2]  ⁷ tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew mss in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.

[11:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “on the roof of the house of the king.” So also in vv. 8, 9.

[11:2]  ⁶ tn The disjunctive clause highlights this observation and builds the tension of the story.

[17:22]  ⁶ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text here or in v. 24, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[17:23]  ⁷ tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”

[19:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “all the people.”

[19:8]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” (see 18:16-17).

[19:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “had fled, each to his tent.”