2 Samuel 3:39

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! ¹  May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!” ² 

2 Samuel 13:16

13:16 But she said to him, “No I won’t, for sending me away now would be worse than what you did to me earlier!” ³  But he refused to listen to her.

2 Samuel 19:7

19:7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to ⁴  your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”

2 Samuel 12:9

12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my ⁵  sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! ⁶  You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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 13:22

13:22 But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 14:17

14:17 So your servant said, ‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the Lord your God be with you!’”

2 Samuel 15:14

15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, ¹²  “Come on! ¹³  Let’s escape! ¹⁴  Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring ¹⁵  disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” ¹⁶ 

2 Samuel 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for ¹⁷  all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 17:14

17:14 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the Lord had decided ¹⁸  to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.

2 Samuel 18:32

18:32 The king asked the Cushite, “How is the young man Absalom?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who have plotted against you ¹⁹  be like that young man!”

2 Samuel 24:16

24:16 When the angel ²⁰  extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. ²¹  He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” ²²  (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)

2 Samuel 12:18

12:18 On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said, “While the child was still alive he would not listen to us ²³  when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!” ²⁴ 

2 Samuel 19:35

19:35 I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I ²⁵  taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I ²⁶  continue to be a burden to my lord the king?

[3:39]  ¹ tn Heb “are hard from me.”

[3:39]  ² tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).

[13:16]  ³ tn Heb “No, because this great evil is [worse] than the other which you did with me, by sending me away.” Perhaps the broken syntax reflects her hysteria and outrage.

[19:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “and speak to the heart of.”

[12:9]  ⁷ tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”

[12:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.

[12:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  ¹¹ tn Or “friend.”

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

[12:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

[15:14]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:14]  ¹² tn Heb “Arise!”

[15:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “let’s flee.”

[15:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “thrust.”

[15:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

[16:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

[17:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “commanded.”

[18:32]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and all those rising against you for evil.”

[24:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “messenger.”

[24:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

[24:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”

[12:18]  ²¹ tn Heb “to our voice.”

[12:18]  ²² tn Heb “he will do harm.” The object is not stated in the Hebrew text. The statement may be intentionally vague, meaning that he might harm himself or them!

[19:35]  ²³ tn Heb “your servant.”

[19:35]  ²⁴ tn Heb “your servant.”