2 Samuel 22:47

22:47 The Lord is alive! ¹ 

My protector ²  is praiseworthy! ³ 

The God who delivers me ⁴  is exalted as king! ⁵ 

2 Samuel 6:18

6:18 When David finished offering the burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.

2 Samuel 7:29

7:29 Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty ⁶  so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!” ⁷ 

2 Samuel 6:11

6:11 The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his family. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 19:39

19:39 So all the people crossed the Jordan, as did the king. After the king had kissed him and blessed him, Barzillai returned to his home. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 21:3

21:3 David said to the Gibeonites, “What can I do for you, and how can I make amends so that you will bless ¹⁰  the Lord’s inheritance?”

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 ¹¹  to your lord Saul by burying him.

2 Samuel 6:12

6:12 David was told, ¹²  “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ¹³  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ¹⁴  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ¹⁵  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ¹⁶  might do!”

2 Samuel 13:25

13:25 But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son. We shouldn’t all go. We shouldn’t burden you in that way.” Though Absalom ¹⁷  pressed ¹⁸  him, the king ¹⁹  was not willing to go. Instead, David ²⁰  blessed him.

2 Samuel 14:22

14:22 Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground and thanked ²¹  the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, because the king has granted the request of your ²²  servant!”

2 Samuel 18:28

18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!” ²³  He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated ²⁴  the men who opposed ²⁵  my lord the king!”

2 Samuel 8:10

8:10 he ²⁶  sent his son Joram ²⁷  to King David to extend his best wishes ²⁸  and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Toi had been at war with Hadadezer. ²⁹  He brought with him various items made of silver, gold, and bronze. ³⁰ 

[22:47]  ¹ tn Elsewhere the construction חַי־יְהוָה (khay-yÿhvah) as used exclusively as an oath formula, but this is not the case here, for no oath follows. Here the statement is an affirmation of the Lord’s active presence and intervention. In contrast to pagan deities, he demonstrates that he is the living God by rescuing and empowering the psalmist.

[22:47]  ² tn Heb “my rocky cliff,” which is a metaphor for protection.

[22:47]  ³ tn Or “blessed [i.e., praised] be.”

[22:47]  ⁴ tn Heb “the God of the rock of my deliverance.” The term צוּר (tsur, “rock”) is probably accidentally repeated from the previous line. The parallel version in Ps 18:46 has simply “the God of my deliverance.”

[22:47]  ⁵ tn The words “as king” are supplied in the translation for clarification. In the Psalms the verb רוּם (rum, “be exalted”) when used of God, refers to his exalted position as king (Pss 99:2; 113:4; 138:6) and/or his self-revelation as king through his mighty deeds of deliverance (Pss 21:13; 46:10; 57:5, 11).

[7:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “house” (again later in this verse). See the note on “dynastic house” in v. 27.

[7:29]  ⁷ tn Or “permanently”; cf. NLT “it is an eternal blessing.”

[6:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “house,” both here and in v. 12.

[19:39]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to his place.”

[21:3]  ²¹ tn After the preceding imperfect verbal form, the subordinated imperative indicates purpose/result. S. R. Driver comments, “…the imper. is used instead of the more normal voluntative, for the purpose of expressing with somewhat greater force the intention of the previous verb” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 350).

[2:5]  ²⁶ tn Or “loyalty.”

[6:12]  ³¹ tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”

[6:20]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

[6:20]  ³⁷ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:20]  ³⁸ tn Heb “honored.”

[6:20]  ³⁹ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

[13:25]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:25]  ⁴² tc Here and in v. 27 the translation follows 4QSam^a ויצפר (vayyitspar, “and he pressed”) rather than the MT וַיִּפְרָץ (vayyiprats, “and he broke through”). This emended reading seems also to underlie the translations of the LXX (καὶ ἐβιάσατο, kai ebiasato), the Syriac Peshitta (we’alseh), and Vulgate (cogeret eum).

[13:25]  ⁴³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:25]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:22]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “blessed.”

[14:22]  ⁴⁷ tc The present translation reads with the Qere “your” rather than the MT “his.”

[18:28]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “Peace.”

[18:28]  ⁵² tn Heb “delivered over.”

[18:28]  ⁵³ tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”

[8:10]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “Toi.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:10]  ⁵⁷ tn The name appears as “Hadoram” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:10.

[8:10]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

[8:10]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.”

[8:10]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”