2 Samuel 4:8

4:8 They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against ¹  Saul and his descendants!”

2 Samuel 8:10

8:10 he ²  sent his son Joram ³  to King David to extend his best wishes ⁴  and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Toi had been at war with Hadadezer. ⁵  He brought with him various items made of silver, gold, and bronze. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 11:21

11:21 Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone ⁷  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 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for ⁸  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 16:11

16:11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son, my very own flesh and blood, ⁹  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 18:2

18:2 David then sent out the army – a third under the leadership of Joab, a third under the leadership of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under the leadership of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I too will indeed march out with you.”

2 Samuel 18:18

18:18 Prior to this ¹⁰  Absalom had set up a monument ¹¹  and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning “I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial.

2 Samuel 19:5

19:5 So Joab visited ¹²  the king at his home. He said, “Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day, as well as the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your concubines.

2 Samuel 19:22

19:22 But David said, “What do we have in common, ¹³  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?”

2 Samuel 20:21

20:21 That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled ¹⁴  against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute ¹⁵  his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ¹⁶  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ¹⁷  from the leaders ¹⁸  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ¹⁹  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ²⁰  publicly exposed their corpses ²¹  after ²²  they ²³  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

2 Samuel 21:17

21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying, “You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”

[4:8]  ¹ tn Heb “from.”

[8:10]  ² tn Heb “Toi.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:10]  ³ tn The name appears as “Hadoram” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:10.

[8:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

[8:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.”

[8:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”

[11:21]  ³ 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.

[16:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

[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.

[18:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “and.” This disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) describes an occurrence that preceded the events just narrated.

[18:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “a pillar.”

[19:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “came to.”

[19:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “what to me and to you.”

[20:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “lifted his hand.”

[20:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Look!”

[21:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

[21:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

[21:12]  ¹² tn Heb “lords.”

[21:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “stolen.”

[21:12]  ¹⁴ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

[21:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “had hung them.”

[21:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the day.”

[21:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Philistines.”