2 Samuel 18:30

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

2 Samuel 15:26

15:26 However, if he should say, ‘I do not take pleasure in you,’ then he will deal with me in a way that he considers appropriate.” ¹ 

2 Samuel 7:8

7:8 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd ²  to make you leader of my people Israel.

2 Samuel 3:9

3:9 God will severely judge Abner ³  if I do not do for David exactly what the Lord has promised him, ⁴ 

2 Samuel 7:5

7:5 “Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?

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 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ⁵  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 11:25

11:25 David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing upset you. ⁶  There is no way to anticipate whom the sword will cut down. ⁷  Press the battle against the city and conquer ⁸  it.’ Encourage him with these words.” ⁹ 

2 Samuel 12:7

12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose ¹⁰  you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 12:11

12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ¹¹  from inside your own household! ¹²  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ¹³  He will have sexual relations with ¹⁴  your wives in broad daylight! ¹⁵ 

2 Samuel 16:10

16:10 But the king said, “What do we have in common, ¹⁶  you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David!’, who can say to him, ‘Why have you done this?’”

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ¹⁷  God will punish me severely, ¹⁸  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

[15:26]  ¹ tn Heb “as [is] good in his eyes.”

[7:8]  ¹ tn Heb “and from after the sheep.”

[3:9]  ¹ tn Heb “So will God do to Abner and so he will add to him.”

[3:9]  ² tc Heb “has sworn to David.” The LXX, with the exception of the recension of Origen, adds “in this day.”

[3:35]  ¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[11:25]  ¹ tn Heb “let not this matter be evil in your eyes.”

[11:25]  ² tn Heb “according to this and according to this the sword devours.”

[11:25]  ³ tn Heb “overthrow.”

[11:25]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text does not have “with these words.” They are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[12:7]  ¹ tn Heb “anointed.”

[12:11]  ¹ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  ² tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  ³ tn Or “friend.”

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

[16:10]  ¹ tn Heb “What to me and to you?”

[19:13]  ¹ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

[19:13]  ² tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”