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 Samuel 2:4

2:4 The men of Judah came and there they anointed David as king over the people ⁶  of Judah.

David was told, ⁷  “The people ⁸  of Jabesh Gilead are the ones who buried Saul.”

2 Samuel 5:3

5:3 When all the leaders ⁹  of Israel came to the king at Hebron, King David made an agreement with them ¹⁰  in Hebron before the Lord. They designated ¹¹  David as king over Israel.

2 Samuel 5:17

Conflict with the Philistines

5:17 When the Philistines heard that David had been designated ¹²  king over Israel, they all ¹³  went up to search for David. When David heard about it, he went down to the fortress.

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 ¹⁴  you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.

[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).

[2:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[2:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they told David.” The subject appears to be indefinite, allowing one to translate the verb as passive with David as subject.

[2:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “men.”

[5:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “elders.”

[5:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the king, David, cut for them a covenant.”

[5:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “anointed.”

[5:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “anointed.”

[5:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “all the Philistines.”

[12:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “anointed.”