2 Samuel 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ¹  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 11:25

11:25 David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing upset you. ²  There is no way to anticipate whom the sword will cut down. ³  Press the battle against the city and conquer ⁴  it.’ Encourage him with these words.” ⁵ 

2 Samuel 12:7

12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose ⁶  you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 12:11

12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ⁷  from inside your own household! ⁸  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ⁹  He will have sexual relations with ¹⁰  your wives in broad daylight! ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 16:10

16:10 But the king said, “What do we have in common, ¹²  you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David!’, who can say to him, ‘Why have you done this?’”

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ¹³  God will punish me severely, ¹⁴  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

[3:35]  ¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[11:25]  ² tn Heb “let not this matter be evil in your eyes.”

[11:25]  ³ tn Heb “according to this and according to this the sword devours.”

[11:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “overthrow.”

[11:25]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text does not have “with these words.” They are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[12:7]  ³ tn Heb “anointed.”

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  ⁶ tn Or “friend.”

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

[12:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

[16:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “What to me and to you?”

[19:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

[19:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”