2 Samuel 3:1

3:1 However, the war was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David. David was becoming steadily stronger, while the house of Saul was becoming increasingly weaker.

2 Samuel 5:1

David Is Anointed King Over Israel

5:1 All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood! ¹ 

2 Samuel 5:19

5:19 So David asked the Lord, “Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The Lord said to David, “March up, for I will indeed ²  hand the Philistines over to you.”

2 Samuel 5:24

5:24 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, act decisively. For at that moment the Lord is going before you to strike down the army ³  of the Philistines.”

2 Samuel 5:1

David Is Anointed King Over Israel

5:1 All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood! ⁴ 

2 Samuel 12:22

12:22 He replied, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ⁵  ‘Perhaps ⁶  the Lord will show pity and the child will live.

2 Samuel 12:2

12:2 The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

2 Samuel 17:12-19

17:12 We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive – not one of them! 17:13 If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”

17:14 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the Lord had decided ⁷  to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.

17:15 Then Hushai reported to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Here is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the leaders ⁸  of Israel to do, and here is what I have advised. 17:16 Now send word quickly to David and warn him, ⁹  “Don’t spend the night at the fords of the desert ¹⁰  tonight. Instead, be sure you cross over, ¹¹  or else the king and everyone who is with him may be overwhelmed.” ¹² 

17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying in En Rogel. A female servant would go and inform them, and they would then go and inform King David. It was not advisable for them to be seen going into the city. 17:18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it. 17:19 His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.

Isaiah 9:17

9:17 So the sovereign master was not pleased ¹³  with their young men,

he took no pity ¹⁴  on their orphans and widows;

for the whole nation was godless ¹⁵  and did wicked things, ¹⁶ 

every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. ¹⁷ 

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. ¹⁸ 

Revelation 19:13-16

19:13 He is dressed in clothing dipped ¹⁹  in blood, and he is called ²⁰  the Word of God. 19:14 The ²¹  armies that are in heaven, dressed in white, clean, fine linen, ²²  were following him on white horses. 19:15 From his mouth extends a sharp sword, so that with it he can strike the nations. ²³  He ²⁴  will rule ²⁵  them with an iron rod, ²⁶  and he stomps the winepress ²⁷  of the furious ²⁸  wrath of God, the All-Powerful. ²⁹  19:16 He has a name written on his clothing and on his thigh: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”

[5:1]  ¹ tn Heb “look we are your bone and your flesh.”

[5:19]  ² tn The infinitive absolute lends emphasis to the following verb.

[5:24]  ³ tn Heb “camp” (so NAB).

[5:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “look we are your bone and your flesh.”

[12:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “said.”

[12:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “Who knows?”

[17:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “commanded.”

[17:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “elders.”

[17:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “send quickly and tell David saying.”

[17:16]  ¹⁰ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV).

[17:16]  ¹¹ tn That is, “cross over the Jordan River.”

[17:16]  ¹² tn Heb “swallowed up.”

[9:17]  ¹³ tn The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has לא יחמול (“he did not spare”) which is an obvious attempt to tighten the parallelism (note “he took no pity” in the next line). Instead of taking שָׂמַח (samakh) in one of its well attested senses (“rejoice over, be pleased with”), some propose, with support from Arabic, a rare homonymic root meaning “be merciful.”

[9:17]  ¹⁴ tn The translation understands the prefixed verbs יִשְׂמַח (yismakh) and יְרַחֵם (yÿrakhem) as preterites without vav (ו) consecutive. (See v. 11 and the note on “he stirred up.”)

[9:17]  ¹⁵ tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “profaned”; NIV “ungodly.”

[9:17]  ¹⁶ tn מֵרַע (mera’) is a Hiphil participle from רָעַע (ra’a’, “be evil”). The intransitive Hiphil has an exhibitive force here, indicating that they exhibited outwardly the evidence of an inward condition by committing evil deeds.

[9:17]  ¹⁷ tn Or “foolishness” (NASB), here in a moral-ethical sense.

[9:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched.”

[19:13]  ¹⁹ tc It appears that “dipped” (βεβαμμένον, bebammenon), supported by several uncials and other witnesses (A 051 Ï), is the original reading. Due to the lack of the preposition “in” (ἐν, en) after the verb (βεβαμμένον αἵματι, bebammenon {aimati), and also probably because of literary allusions to Isa 63:3, several mss and versions seem to have changed the text to “sprinkled” (either ῥεραντισμένον [rJerantismenon] in P 2329 al; ἐρραντισμένον [errantismenon] in 1006 1841; ἐρραμμένον [errammenon] in 2053 2062; or ῥεραμμένον [rJerammenon] in 1611; or in one case περιρεραμμένον [perirerammenon] in א^[2]). The reading most likely to give rise to the others is “dipped.”

[19:13]  ²⁰ tn Grk “the name of him is called.”

[19:14]  ²¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[19:14]  ²² tn On the term translated “fine linen,” BDAG 185 s.v. βύσσινος states, “made of fine linen, subst. τὸ β. fine linen, linen garment…Rv 18:12, 16; 19:8, 14.”

[19:15]  ²³ tn Or “the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).

[19:15]  ²⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[19:15]  ²⁵ tn Grk “will shepherd.”

[19:15]  ²⁶ tn Or “scepter.” The Greek term ῥάβδος (rJabdo") can mean either “rod” or “scepter.”

[19:15]  ²⁷ sn He stomps the winepress. See Isa 63:3, where Messiah does this alone (usually several individuals would join in the process), and Rev 14:20.

[19:15]  ²⁸ tn The genitive θυμοῦ (qumou) has been translated as an attributed genitive. Following BDAG 461 s.v. θυμός 2, the combination of the genitives of θυμός (qumos) and ὀργή (orgh) in Rev 16:19 and 19:15 are taken to be a strengthening of the thought as in the OT and Qumran literature (Exod 32:12; Jer 32:37; Lam 2:3; CD 10:9).

[19:15]  ²⁹ tn On this word BDAG 755 s.v. παντοκράτωρ states, “the Almighty, All-Powerful, Omnipotent (One) only of God…(ὁ) κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ π. …Rv 1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22.”