2 Samuel 2:5

2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness ¹  to your lord Saul by burying him.

2 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The Gibeonites said to him, “We ²  have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, ³  nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel.” David asked, ⁴  “What then are you asking me to do for you?”

2 Samuel 23:16

23:16 So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate. They carried it back to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord

[2:5]  ¹ tn Or “loyalty.”

[21:4]  ² tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לָנוּ (lanu, “to us”) rather than the MT לִי (li, “to me”). But for a contrary opinion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 53, 350.

[21:4]  ³ tn Heb “house.”

[21:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.