Discovery Box2 Samuel 4:11
Context4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept 1 in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove 2 you from the earth?”
2 Samuel 5:17
Context5:17 When the Philistines heard that David had been designated 3 king over Israel, they all 4 went up to search for David. When David heard about it, he went down to the fortress.
2 Samuel 16:11
Context16:11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son, my very own flesh and blood, 5 is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the Lord has spoken to him.
2 Samuel 17:20
Context17:20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men 6 searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. 7
2 Samuel 21:1-2
Context21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 8 The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 9 because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to 10 them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
[4:11] 2 tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”
[5:17] 4 tn Heb “all the Philistines.”
[16:11] 5 tn Heb “who came out from my entrails.” David’s point is that is his own son, his child whom he himself had fathered, was now wanting to kill him.
[17:20] 7 tn Heb “they”; the referents (Absalom’s men) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
[17:20] 8 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[21:1] 9 tn Heb “sought the face of the
