2 Samuel 14:8

14:8 Then the king told the woman, “Go to your home. I will give instructions concerning your situation.” ¹ 

2 Samuel 1:26

1:26 I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan!

You were very dear to me.

Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

2 Samuel 18:31

18:31 Then the Cushite arrived and said, ²  “May my lord the king now receive the good news! The Lord has vindicated you today and delivered you from the hand of all who have rebelled against you!” ³ 

2 Samuel 24:12

24:12 “Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three forms of judgment. Pick one of them and I will carry it out against you.’”

2 Samuel 12:11

12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ⁴  from inside your own household! ⁵  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ⁶  He will have sexual relations with ⁷  your wives in broad daylight! ⁸ 

2 Samuel 13:25

13:25 But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son. We shouldn’t all go. We shouldn’t burden you in that way.” Though Absalom ⁹  pressed ¹⁰  him, the king ¹¹  was not willing to go. Instead, David ¹²  blessed him.

2 Samuel 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for ¹³  all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 17:11

17:11 My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba – in number like the sand by the sea! – be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.

2 Samuel 18:32

18:32 The king asked the Cushite, “How is the young man Absalom?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who have plotted against you ¹⁴  be like that young man!”

2 Samuel 19:7

19:7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to ¹⁵  your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”

[14:8]  ¹ tn Heb “concerning you.”

[18:31]  ² tn Heb “And look, the Cushite came and the Cushite said.”

[18:31]  ³ tn Heb “for the Lord has vindicated you today from the hand of all those rising against you.”

[12:11]  ³ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Or “friend.”

[12:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

[13:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:25]  ⁵ tc Here and in v. 27 the translation follows 4QSam^a ויצפר (vayyitspar, “and he pressed”) rather than the MT וַיִּפְרָץ (vayyiprats, “and he broke through”). This emended reading seems also to underlie the translations of the LXX (καὶ ἐβιάσατο, kai ebiasato), the Syriac Peshitta (we’alseh), and Vulgate (cogeret eum).

[13:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

[18:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “and all those rising against you for evil.”

[19:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “and speak to the heart of.”