2 Samuel 16:7-8

16:7 As he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Leave! Leave! You man of bloodshed, you wicked man! ¹  16:8 The Lord has punished you for ²  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 1:16

1:16 David said to him, “Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying ‘I have put the Lord’s anointed to death.’”

2 Samuel 1:22

1:22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of warriors,

the bow of Jonathan was not turned away.

The sword of Saul never returned ³  empty.

2 Samuel 3:28

3:28 When David later heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!

2 Samuel 23:17

23:17 and said, “O Lord, I will not do this! ⁴  It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” ⁵  So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 3:27

3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him ⁷  in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 4:11

4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept ⁹  in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove ¹⁰  you from the earth?”

2 Samuel 14:11

14:11 She replied, “In that case, ¹¹  let the king invoke the name of ¹²  the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head ¹³  will fall to the ground.”

2 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa ¹⁴  stopped, the man ¹⁵  pulled him ¹⁶  away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

2 Samuel 21:1

The Gibeonites Demand Revenge

21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. ¹⁷  The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, ¹⁸  because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

[16:7]  ¹ tn Heb “man of worthlessness.”

[16:8]  ² tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

[1:22]  ³ tn The Hebrew imperfect verbal form is used here to indicate repeated past action.

[23:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “Far be it to me, O Lord, from doing this.”

[23:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “[Is it not] the blood of the men who were going with their lives?”

[23:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”

[3:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”

[3:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”

[4:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “on his bed.”

[4:11]  ⁷ tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”

[14:11]  ⁷ tn The words “in that case” are not in the Hebrew text, but may be inferred from the context. They are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarification.

[14:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “let the king remember.”

[14:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “of your son.”

[20:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man who spoke up in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Amasa.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.

[21:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “sought the face of the Lord.”

[21:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”