2 Samuel 3:38-39

3:38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader ¹  has fallen this day in Israel? 3:39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear! ²  May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!” ³ 

2 Samuel 4:5

4:5 Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite – Recab and Baanah – went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.

2 Samuel 6:8

6:8 David was angry because the Lord attacked ⁴  Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, ⁵  which remains its name to this very day.

2 Samuel 7:6

7:6 I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 11:12

11:12 So David said to Uriah, “Stay here another day. Tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem both that day and the following one. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 18:31

18:31 Then the Cushite arrived and said, ⁸  “May my lord the king now receive the good news! The Lord has vindicated you today and delivered you from the hand of all who have rebelled against you!” ⁹ 

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

[3:39]  ² tn Heb “are hard from me.”

[3:39]  ³ tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).

[6:8]  ³ tn Heb “because the Lord broke out [with] a breaking out [i.e., an outburst] against Uzzah.”

[6:8]  ⁴ sn The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”

[7:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “in a tent and in a dwelling.” The expression is a hendiadys, using two terms to express one idea.

[11:12]  ⁵ tn On the chronology involved here see P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 287.

[18:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “And look, the Cushite came and the Cushite said.”

[18:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “for the Lord has vindicated you today from the hand of all those rising against you.”