2 Samuel 22:10

22:10 He made the sky sink ¹  as he descended;

a thick cloud was under his feet.

2 Samuel 2:19

2:19 Asahel chased Abner, without turning to the right or to the left as he followed Abner.

2 Samuel 6:10

6:10 So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

2 Samuel 16:22

16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, ²  and Absalom had sex with ³  his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 19:14

19:14 He ⁴  won over the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man. Then they sent word to the king saying, “Return, you and all your servants as well.”

2 Samuel 2:21

2:21 Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right or to your left. Capture one of the soldiers ⁵  and take his equipment for yourself!” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

2 Samuel 3:27

3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him ⁶  in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 6:17

6:17 They brought the ark of the Lord and put it in its place ⁸  in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the Lord.

2 Samuel 21:10

21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, ⁹  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed ¹⁰  on them by day, nor the wild animals ¹¹  by night.

[22:10]  ¹ tn The verb נָטָה (natah) can carry the sense “[to cause to] bend; [to cause to] bow down” (see HALOT 693 s.v. נָטָה). For example, Gen 49:15 pictures Issachar as a donkey that “bends” its shoulder or back under a burden (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “He bowed the heavens”; NAB “He inclined the heavens”). Here the Lord causes the sky, pictured as a dome or vault, to bend or sink down as he descends in the storm.

[16:22]  ² sn That is, on top of the flat roof of the palace, so it would be visible to the public.

[16:22]  ³ tn Heb “went to”; NAB “he visited his father’s concubines”; NIV “lay with his father’s concubines”; TEV “went in and had intercourse with.”

[19:14]  ³ tn The referent of “he” is not entirely clear: cf. NCV “David”; TEV “David’s words”; NRSV, NLT “Amasa.”

[2:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “young men.” So also elsewhere.

[3:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”

[3:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”

[6:17]  ⁶ tc The Syriac Peshitta lacks “in its place.”

[21:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”

[21:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “rest.”

[21:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”