2 Samuel 3:2

3:2 Now sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, born to Ahinoam the Jezreelite.

2 Samuel 3:5

3:5 His sixth son was Ithream, born to David’s wife Eglah. These sons ¹  were all born to David in Hebron.

2 Samuel 4:1

Ish-bosheth is killed

4:1 When Ish-bosheth ²  the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he was very disheartened, ³  and all Israel was afraid.

2 Samuel 4:12

4:12 So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them ⁴  near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth ⁵  and buried it in the tomb of Abner ⁶  in Hebron. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 2:11

2:11 David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah for seven and a half years. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 2:32

2:32 They took Asahel’s body and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. ⁹  Joab and his men then traveled all that night and reached Hebron by dawn.

2 Samuel 3:32

3:32 So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly ¹⁰  over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too.

2 Samuel 5:5

5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem ¹¹  he reigned for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

2 Samuel 15:7

15:7 After four ¹²  years Absalom said to the king, “Let me go and repay my vow that I made to the Lord while I was in Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:10

15:10 Then Absalom sent spies through all the tribes of Israel who said, “When you hear the sound of the horn, you may assume ¹³  that Absalom rules in Hebron.”

2 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Then Abner spoke privately ¹⁴  with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately ¹⁵  of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. ¹⁶ 

2 Samuel 3:22

Abner Is Killed

3:22 Now David’s soldiers ¹⁷  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 ¹⁸  had sent him away and he had left in peace.

2 Samuel 5:3

5:3 When all the leaders ¹⁹  of Israel came to the king at Hebron, King David made an agreement with them ²⁰  in Hebron before the Lord. They designated ²¹  David as king over Israel.

[3:5]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text does not have “sons.”

[4:1]  ¹ tn The MT does not specify the subject of the verb here, but the reference is to Ish-bosheth, so the name has been supplied in the translation for clarity. 4QSam^a and the LXX mistakenly read “Mephibosheth.”

[4:1]  ² tn Heb “his hands went slack.”

[4:12]  ¹ tn The antecedent of the pronoun “them” (which is not present in the Hebrew text, but implied) is not entirely clear. Presumably it is the corpses that were hung and not merely the detached hands and feet; cf. NIV “hung the (their NRSV, NLT) bodies”; the alternative is represented by TEV “cut off their hands and feet, which they hung up.”

[4:12]  ² tc 4QSam^a mistakenly reads “Mephibosheth” here.

[4:12]  ³ tc The LXX adds “the son of Ner” by conformity with common phraseology elsewhere.

[4:12]  ⁴ tc Some mss of the LXX lack the phrase “in Hebron.”

[2:11]  ¹ tn Heb “And the number of the days in which David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.”

[2:32]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[3:32]  ¹ tn Heb “lifted up his voice and wept.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

[5:5]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:7]  ¹ tc The MT has here “forty,” but this is presumably a scribal error for “four.” The context will not tolerate a period of forty years prior to the rebellion of Absalom. The Lucianic Greek recension (τέσσαρα ἔτη, tessara ete), the Syriac Peshitta (’arba’ sanin), and Vulgate (post quattuor autem annos) in fact have the expected reading “four years.” Most English translations follow the versions in reading “four” here, although some (e.g. KJV, ASV, NASB, NKJV), following the MT, read “forty.”

[15:10]  ¹ tn Heb “say.”

[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.”

[3:22]  ¹ tn Heb “And look, the servants of David.”

[3:22]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:3]  ¹ tn Heb “elders.”

[5:3]  ² tn Heb “and the king, David, cut for them a covenant.”

[5:3]  ³ tn Heb “anointed.”