2 Samuel 2:7

2:7 Now be courageous ¹  and prove to be valiant warriors, for your lord Saul is dead. The people of Judah have anointed me as king over them.”

2 Samuel 3:39

3:39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear! ²  May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!” ³ 

2 Samuel 19:10

19:10 But Absalom, whom we anointed as our king, ⁴  has died in battle. So now why do you hesitate to bring the king back?” ⁵ 

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “let your hands be strong.”

[3:39]  ² tn Heb “are hard from me.”

[3:39]  ³ tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).

[19:10]  ³ tn Heb “over us.”

[19:10]  ⁴ tc The LXX includes the following words at the end of v. 11: “And what all Israel was saying came to the king’s attention.” The words are misplaced in the LXX from v. 12 (although the same statement appears there in the LXX as well).