2 Samuel 2:26

2:26 Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”

2 Samuel 5:6

David Occupies Jerusalem

5:6 Then the king and his men advanced to Jerusalem ¹  against the Jebusites who lived in the land. The Jebusites ²  said to David, “You cannot invade this place! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back, saying, ‘David cannot invade this place!’”

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 ³  pressed ⁴  him, the king ⁵  was not willing to go. Instead, David ⁶  blessed him.

2 Samuel 14:14

14:14 Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 17:22

17:22 So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. ⁸  By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.

2 Samuel 18:20

18:20 But Joab said to him, “You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today, ⁹  for the king’s son is dead.”

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ¹⁰  God will punish me severely, ¹¹  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

2 Samuel 20:10

20:10 Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab ¹²  stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s ¹³  intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. ¹⁴  Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.

2 Samuel 21:17

21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying, “You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, ¹⁵ 

for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,

arranged in all its particulars and secured.

He always delivers me,

and brings all I desire to fruition. ¹⁶ 

2 Samuel 24:24

24:24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it from you! I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.”

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver. ¹⁷ 

[5:6]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:6]  ² tn The Hebrew text has “he” rather than “the Jebusites.” The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In the Syriac Peshitta and some mss of the Targum the verb is plural rather than singular.

[13:25]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:25]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

[14:14]  ¹ tn Heb “he devises plans for the one banished from him not to be banished.”

[17:22]  ¹ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text here or in v. 24, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[18:20]  ¹ tn Heb “but this day you will not bear good news.”

[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.”

[20:10]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:10]  ² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:10]  ³ tn Heb “and he did not repeat concerning him, and he died.”

[23:5]  ¹ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

[23:5]  ² tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”

[24:24]  ¹ tn Heb “fifty shekels of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.