2 Samuel 15:28

15:28 Look, I will be waiting at the fords of the desert until word from you ¹  reaches me.”

2 Samuel 18:30

18:30 The king said, “Turn aside and take your place here.” So he turned aside and waited.

2 Samuel 17:17

17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying in En Rogel. A female servant would go and inform them, and they would then go and inform King David. It was not advisable for them to be seen going into the city.

2 Samuel 18:14

18:14 Joab replied, “I will not wait around like this for you!” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree. ² 

2 Samuel 6:13

6:13 Those who carried the ark of the Lord took six steps and then David ³  sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf.

2 Samuel 13:17

13:17 He called his personal attendant and said to him, “Take this woman out of my sight ⁴  and lock the door behind her!”

2 Samuel 11:12

11:12 So David said to Uriah, “Stay here another day. Tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem both that day and the following one. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 15:32

15:32 When David reached the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite met him with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

2 Samuel 10:5

10:5 Messengers ⁶  told David what had happened, ⁷  so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho ⁸  until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.”

2 Samuel 15:23

15:23 All the land was weeping loudly ⁹  as all these people were leaving. ¹⁰  As the king was crossing over the Kidron Valley, all the people were leaving ¹¹  on the road that leads to the desert.

2 Samuel 13:28

13:28 Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk ¹²  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!” ¹³ 

2 Samuel 16:1

David Receives Gifts from Ziba

16:1 When David had gone a short way beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a couple of donkeys that were saddled, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred raisin cakes, a hundred baskets of summer fruit, ¹⁴  and a container of wine.

[15:28]  ¹ tn The pronoun is plural, referring to Zadok and Abiathar.

[18:14]  ² tn There is a play on the word “heart” here that is difficult to reproduce in English. Literally the Hebrew text says “he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the heart of the oak tree.” This figure of speech involves the use of the same word in different senses and is known as antanaclasis. It is illustrated in the familiar saying from the time of the American Revolution: “If we don’t hang together, we will all hang separately.” The present translation understands “heart” to be used somewhat figuratively for “chest” (cf. TEV, CEV), which explains why Joab’s armor bearers could still “kill” Absalom after he had been stabbed with three spears through the “heart.” Since trees do not have “chests” either, the translation uses “middle.”

[6:13]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “send this [one] from upon me to the outside.”

[11:12]  ⁵ tn On the chronology involved here see P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 287.

[10:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:5]  ⁷ tn The words “what had happened” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[10:5]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[15:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “with a great voice.”

[15:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “crossing over.”

[15:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “crossing near the face of.”

[13:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “when good is the heart of Amnon with wine.”

[13:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “and become sons of valor.”

[16:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “a hundred summer fruit.”