2 Samuel 3:32

3:32 So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly ¹  over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too.

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. ² 

2 Samuel 7:12

7:12 When the time comes for you to die, ³  I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, ⁴  and I will establish his kingdom.

2 Samuel 8:1

David Subjugates Nearby Nations

8:1 Later David defeated the Philistines and subdued them. David took Metheg Ammah ⁵  from the Philistines. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 10:17

10:17 When David was informed, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan River, ⁷  and came to Helam. The Arameans deployed their forces against David and fought with him.

2 Samuel 11:6

11:6 So David sent a message to Joab that said, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.

2 Samuel 12:6

12:6 Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!” ⁸ 

2 Samuel 12:24

12:24 So David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to her and had marital relations with her. ⁹  She gave birth to a son, and David ¹⁰  named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved the child ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 12:28

12:28 So now assemble the rest of the army ¹²  and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city and it will be named for me.”

2 Samuel 13:8

13:8 So Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, who was lying down. She took the dough, kneaded it, made some cakes while he watched, ¹³  and baked them. ¹⁴ 

2 Samuel 13:17

13:17 He called his personal attendant and said to him, “Take this woman out of my sight ¹⁵  and lock the door behind her!”

2 Samuel 14:6

14:6 Your servant ¹⁶  has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

2 Samuel 16:6

16:6 He threw stones at David and all of King David’s servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.

2 Samuel 17:2

17:2 When I catch up with ¹⁷  him he will be exhausted and worn out. ¹⁸  I will rout him, and the entire army that is with him will flee. I will kill only the king

2 Samuel 19:15

19:15 So the king returned and came to the Jordan River. ¹⁹ 

Now the people of Judah ²⁰  had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him ²¹  cross the Jordan.

2 Samuel 22:1

David Sings to the Lord

22:1 ²² David sang ²³  to the Lord the words of this song when ²⁴  the Lord rescued him from the power ²⁵  of all his enemies, including Saul. ²⁶ 

2 Samuel 24:20

24:20 When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he ²⁷  went out and bowed to the king with his face ²⁸  to the ground.

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

[6:11]  ² tn Heb “house,” both here and in v. 12.

[7:12]  ³ tn Heb, “when your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors.”

[7:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “your seed after you who comes out from your insides.”

[8:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “the bridle of one cubit.” Many English versions treat this as a place name because the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:1 reads “Gath” (which is used by NLT here). It is possible that “the bridle of one cubit” is to be understood as “the token of surrender,” referring to the Philistine’s defeat rather than a specific place (cf. TEV, CEV).

[8:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the hand [i.e., control] of the Philistines.”

[10:17]  ⁵ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[12:6]  ⁶ tc With the exception of the Lucianic recension, the Old Greek translation has here “sevenfold” rather than “fourfold,” a reading that S. R. Driver thought probably to be the original reading (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 291). However, Exod 22:1 [21:37 HT] specifies fourfold repayment for a stolen sheep, which is consistent with 2 Sam 12:6. Some mss of the Targum and the Syriac Peshitta exaggerate the idea to “fortyfold.”

[12:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he lay with her.”

[12:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity. While some translations render the pronoun as third person plural (“they”), implying that both David and Bathsheba together named the child, it is likely that the name “Solomon,” which is related to the Hebrew word for “peace” (and may be derived from it) had special significance for David, who would have regarded the birth of a second child to Bathsheba as a confirming sign that God had forgiven his sin and was at peace with him.

[12:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “him,” referring to the child.

[12:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “people.” So also in vv. 29, 31.

[13:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “in his sight.”

[13:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the cakes.”

[13:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “send this [one] from upon me to the outside.”

[14:6]  ¹¹ tn Here and elsewhere (vv. 7, 12, 15a, 17, 19) the woman uses a term which suggests a lower level female servant. She uses the term to express her humility before the king. However, she uses a different term in vv. 15b-16. See the note at v. 15 for a discussion of the rhetorical purpose of this switch in terminology.

[17:2]  ¹² tn Heb “and I will come upon him.”

[17:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “exhausted and slack of hands.”

[19:15]  ¹³ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[19:15]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Judah.”

[19:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the king.” The pronoun (“him”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.

[22:1]  ¹⁴ sn In this long song of thanks, David affirms that God is his faithful protector. He recalls in highly poetic fashion how God intervened in awesome power and delivered him from death. His experience demonstrates that God vindicates those who are blameless and remain loyal to him. True to his promises, God gives the king victory on the battlefield and enables him to subdue nations. A parallel version of the song appears in Ps 18.

[22:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “spoke.”

[22:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the day,” or “at the time.”

[22:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “hand.”

[22:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and from the hand of Saul.”

[24:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Araunah.” The name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.

[24:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “nostrils.”