2 Samuel 22:10

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

a thick cloud was under his feet.

2 Samuel 22:37

22:37 You widen my path; ² 

my feet ³  do not slip.

2 Samuel 22:40

22:40 You give me strength for battle; ⁴ 

you make my foes kneel before me. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 22:39

22:39 I wipe them out and beat them to death;

they cannot get up;

they fall at my feet.

2 Samuel 22:48

22:48 The one true God completely vindicates me; ⁶ 

he makes nations submit to me. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 10:1

David and the Ammonites

10:1 Later the king of the Ammonites died and his son Hanun succeeded him. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 16:12

16:12 Perhaps the Lord will notice my affliction ⁹  and this day grant me good in place of his curse.” ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his ¹¹  mule, it ¹²  went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, ¹³  while the mule he had been riding kept going.

2 Samuel 7:10

7:10 I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle ¹⁴  them there; they will live there and not be disturbed ¹⁵  any more. Violent men ¹⁶  will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginning

2 Samuel 19:21

19:21 Abishai son of Zeruiah replied, “For this should not Shimei be put to death? After all, he cursed the Lord’s anointed!”

2 Samuel 2:23

2:23 But Asahel ¹⁷  refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his ¹⁸  spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel ¹⁹  collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner. ²⁰  Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect. ²¹ 

2 Samuel 3:12

3:12 Then Abner sent messengers ²²  to David saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement ²³  with me, and I will do whatever I can ²⁴  to cause all Israel to turn to you.”

2 Samuel 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for ²⁵  all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 17:25

17:25 Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married ²⁶  Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 18:33

18:33 (19:1) ²⁷  The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, “My son, Absalom! My son, my son, ²⁸  Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!” ²⁹ 

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ³⁰  God will punish me severely, ³¹  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

[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.

[22:37]  ² tn Heb “step.” “Step” probably refers metonymically to the path upon which the psalmist walks. Another option is to translate, “you widen my stride.” This would suggest that God gives him the capacity to run quickly.

[22:37]  ³ tn Heb “lower legs.” On the meaning of the Hebrew noun, which occurs only here, see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena (SBLDS), 112. A cognate Akkadian noun means “lower leg.”

[22:40]  ³ tn Heb “you clothed me with strength for battle.”

[22:40]  ⁴ tn Heb “you make those who rise against me kneel beneath me.”

[22:48]  ⁴ tn Heb “The God is the one who grants vengeance to me.” The plural form of the noun “vengeance” indicates degree here, suggesting complete vengeance or vindication. In the ancient Near East military victory was sometimes viewed as a sign that one’s God had judged in favor of the victor, avenging and/or vindicating him. See, for example, Judg 11:27, 32-33, 36.

[22:48]  ⁵ tn Heb “and [is the one who] brings down nations beneath me.”

[10:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “reigned in his place.”

[16:12]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text is difficult here. It is probably preferable to read with the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate בְּעוֹנִי (bÿ’onyi, “on my affliction”) rather than the Kethib of the MT בָּעַוֹנִי (ba’avoni, “on my wrongdoing”). While this Kethib reading is understandable as an objective genitive (i.e., “the wrong perpetrated upon me”), it does not conform to normal Hebrew idiom for this idea. The Qere of the MT בְּעֵינֵי (bÿ’eni, “on my eyes”), usually taken as synecdoche to mean “my tears,” does not commend itself as a likely meaning. The Hebrew word is one of the so-called tiqqune sopherim, or “emendations of the scribes.”

[16:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the Lord will restore to me good in place of his curse this day.”

[18:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “the.”

[18:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “the donkey.”

[18:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”

[7:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “plant.”

[7:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “shaken.”

[7:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the sons of violence.”

[2:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the.” The article functions here as a possessive pronoun.

[2:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:23]  ¹² tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they stand.”

[3:12]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text adds here, “on his behalf.”

[3:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “cut a covenant.” So also in vv. 13, 21.

[3:12]  ¹² tn Heb “and behold, my hand is with you.”

[16:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

[17:25]  ¹² tn Heb “come to.”

[18:33]  ¹³ sn This marks the beginning of ch. 19 in the Hebrew text. Beginning with 18:33, the verse numbers through 19:43 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 18:33 ET = 19:1 HT, 19:1 ET = 19:2 HT, 19:2 ET = 19:3 HT, etc., through 19:43 ET = 19:44 HT. From 20:1 the versification in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible is again the same.

[18:33]  ¹⁴ tc One medieval Hebrew ms, some mss of the LXX, and the Vulgate lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography.

[18:33]  ¹⁵ tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography.

[19:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

[19:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”