2 Samuel 2:16

2:16 As they grappled with one another, each one stabbed his opponent with his sword and they fell dead together. ¹  So that place is called the Field of Flints; ²  it is in Gibeon.

2 Samuel 9:11

9:11 Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do everything that my lord the king has instructed his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth was a regular guest ³  at David’s table, ⁴  just as though he were one of the king’s sons.

2 Samuel 13:2

13:2 But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick ⁵  over his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and to Amnon it seemed out of the question to do anything to her.

2 Samuel 13:10

13:10 Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the cakes into the bedroom; then I will eat from your hand.” So Tamar took the cakes that she had prepared and brought them to her brother Amnon in the bedroom.

2 Samuel 14:24

14:24 But the king said, “Let him go over ⁶  to his own house. He may not see my face.” So Absalom went over ⁷  to his own house; he did not see the king’s face.

2 Samuel 14:33

14:33 So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king ⁸  summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom ⁹  bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 17:12

17:12 We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive – not one of them!

2 Samuel 20:2

20:2 So all the men of Israel deserted ¹¹  David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River ¹²  to Jerusalem. ¹³ 

2 Samuel 24:2

24:2 The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.”

[2:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and they grabbed each one the head of his neighbor with his sword in the side of his neighbor and they fell together.”

[2:16]  ² tn The meaning of the name “Helkath Hazzurim” (so NIV; KJV, NASB, NRSV similar) is not clear. BHK relates the name to the Hebrew term for “side,” and this is reflected in NAB “the Field of the Sides”; the Greek OT revocalizes the Hebrew to mean something like “Field of Adversaries.” Cf. also TEV, NLT “Field of Swords”; CEV “Field of Daggers.”

[9:11]  ³ tn Heb “eating.”

[9:11]  ⁴ tc Heb “my table.” But the first person reference to David is awkward here since the quotation of David’s words has already been concluded in v. 10; nor does the “my” refer to Ziba, since the latter part of v. 11 does not seem to be part of Ziba’s response to the king. The ancient versions are not unanimous in the way that they render the phrase. The LXX has “the table of David” (τῆς τραπέζης Δαυιδ, th" trapezh" Dauid); the Syriac Peshitta has “the table of the king” (patureh demalka’); the Vulgate has “your table” (mensam tuam). The present translation follows the LXX.

[13:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “and there was distress to Amnon so that he made himself sick.”

[14:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “turn aside.”

[14:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[14:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “he.” Joab, acting on behalf of the king, may be the implied subject.

[14:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:33]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Absalom.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.

[20:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “went up from after.”

[20:2]  ¹² tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.