Discovery Box2 Samuel 3:19
Context3:19 Then Abner spoke privately 1 with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately 2 of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. 3
2 Samuel 3:21-22
Context3:21 Abner said to David, “Let me leave so that I may go and gather all Israel to my lord the king so that they may make an agreement 4 with you. Then you will rule over all that you desire.” So David sent Abner away, and he left in peace.
3:22 Now David’s soldiers 5 and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David 6 had sent him away and he had left in peace.
2 Samuel 5:6
Context5:6 Then the king and his men advanced to Jerusalem 7 against the Jebusites who lived in the land. The Jebusites 8 said to David, “You cannot invade this place! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back, saying, ‘David cannot invade this place!’”
2 Samuel 6:2
Context6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled 9 to 10 Baalah 11 in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name 12 of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.
2 Samuel 6:12
Context6:12 David was told, 13 “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 6:19
Context6:19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, 14 both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, 15 and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home. 16
2 Samuel 17:23
Context17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave 17 of his father.
2 Samuel 18:24
Context18:24 Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, 18 and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.
[3:19] 1 tn Heb “into the ears of.”
[3:19] 2 tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”
[3:19] 3 tn Heb “all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin.”
[3:21] 4 tn After the cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
[3:22] 7 tn Heb “And look, the servants of David.”
[3:22] 8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[5:6] 10 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[5:6] 11 tn The Hebrew text has “he” rather than “the Jebusites.” The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In the Syriac Peshitta and some
[6:2] 13 tn Heb “arose and went.”
[6:2] 14 tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.
[6:2] 15 tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).
[6:2] 16 tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew
[6:12] 16 tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”
[6:19] 19 tn Heb “to all the people, to all the throng of Israel.”
[6:19] 20 tn The Hebrew word used here אֶשְׁפָּר (’espar) is found in the OT only here and in the parallel passage found in 1 Chr 16:3. Its exact meaning is uncertain, although the context indicates that it was a food of some sort (cf. KJV “a good piece of flesh”; NRSV “a portion of meat”). The translation adopted here (“date cake”) follows the lead of the Greek translations of the LXX, Aquila, and Symmachus (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).
[6:19] 21 tn Heb “and all the people went, each to his house.”
[17:23] 22 tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”
