2 Samuel 3:38

3:38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader ¹  has fallen this day in Israel?

2 Samuel 11:3

11:3 So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger ²  said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

2 Samuel 16:19

16:19 Moreover, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? Just as I served your father, so I will serve you.” ³ 

2 Samuel 2:26

2:26 Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”

2 Samuel 4:11

4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept ⁴  in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove ⁵  you from the earth?”

2 Samuel 10:3

10:3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? ⁶  No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!” ⁷ 

2 Samuel 11:10

11:10 So they informed David, “Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven’t you gone down to your house?”

2 Samuel 11:20-21

11:20 if the king becomes angry and asks you, ‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the wall? 11:21 Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone ⁸  down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?’ just say to him, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

2 Samuel 13:4

13:4 He asked Amnon, ⁹  “Why are you, the king’s son, ¹⁰  so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.”

2 Samuel 13:28

13:28 Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk ¹¹  and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!” ¹² 

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!’”

2 Samuel 19:22

19:22 But David said, “What do we have in common, ¹⁵  you sons of Zeruiah? You are like my enemy today! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don’t you realize that today I am king over Israel?”

[3:38]  ¹ tn Heb “a leader and a great one.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[11:3]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the messenger) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:19]  ³ tn Heb “Just as I served before your father, so I will be before you.”

[4:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “on his bed.”

[4:11]  ⁵ tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”

[10:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”

[10:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “Is it not to explore the city and to spy on it and to overthrow it [that] David has sent his servants to you?”

[11:21]  ⁶ sn The upper millstone (Heb “millstone of riding”) refers to the heavy circular stone that was commonly rolled over a circular base in order to crush and grind such things as olives.

[13:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he said to him.”

[13:4]  ⁸ tn An more idiomatic translation might be “Why are you of all people…?”

[13:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “when good is the heart of Amnon with wine.”

[13:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “and become sons of valor.”

[19:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

[19:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[19:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “what to me and to you.”