2 Samuel 5:11

5:11 King Hiram of Tyre ¹  sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace ²  for David.

2 Samuel 5:1

David Is Anointed King Over Israel

5:1 All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood! ³ 

2 Samuel 5:6-10

David Occupies Jerusalem

5:6 Then the king and his men advanced to Jerusalem ⁴  against the Jebusites who lived in the land. The Jebusites ⁵  said to David, “You cannot invade this place! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back, saying, ‘David cannot invade this place!’”

5:7 But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David). 5:8 David said on that day, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must approach the ‘lame’ and the ‘blind’ who are David’s enemies ⁶  by going through the water tunnel.” ⁷  For this reason it is said, “The blind and the lame cannot enter the palace.” ⁸ 

5:9 So David lived in the fortress and called it the City of David. David built all around it, from the terrace inwards. 5:10 David’s power grew steadily, for the Lord God ⁹  who commands armies ¹⁰  was with him. ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 5:2

5:2 In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. ¹²  The Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”

2 Samuel 2:3

2:3 David also brought along the men who were with him, each with his family. They settled in the cities ¹³  of Hebron.

Ezra 3:7

Preparations for Rebuilding the Temple

3:7 So they provided money ¹⁴  for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon ¹⁵  and Tyre, ¹⁶  so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport ¹⁷  at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.

[5:11]  ¹ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[5:11]  ² tn Heb “a house.”

[5:1]  ³ tn Heb “look we are your bone and your flesh.”

[5:6]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:6]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “he” rather than “the Jebusites.” The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In the Syriac Peshitta and some mss of the Targum the verb is plural rather than singular.

[5:8]  ⁶ tc There is some confusion among the witnesses concerning this word. The Kethib is the Qal perfect 3cp שָׂנְאוּ (sanÿ’u, “they hated”), referring to the Jebusites’ attitude toward David. The Qere is the Qal passive participle construct plural שְׂנֻאֵי (sÿnu’e, “hated”), referring to David’s attitude toward the Jebusites. 4QSam^a has the Qal perfect 3rd person feminine singular שָׂנְאָה (sanÿ’ah, “hated”), the subject of which would be “the soul of David.” The difference is minor and the translation adopted above works for either the Kethib or the Qere.

[5:8]  ⁷ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term has been debated. For a survey of various views, see P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 139-40.

[5:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “the house.” TEV takes this as a reference to the temple (“the Lord’s house”).

[5:10]  ⁹ tc 4QSam^a and the LXX lack the word “God,” probably due to harmonization with the more common biblical phrase “the Lord of hosts.”

[5:10]  ¹⁰ tn Traditionally, “the Lord God of hosts” (KJV, NASB); NIV, NLT “the Lord God Almighty”; CEV “the Lord (+ God NCV) All-Powerful.”

[5:10]  ¹¹ tn The translation assumes that the disjunctive clause is circumstantial-causal, giving the reason for David’s success.

[5:2]  ¹² tn Heb “you were the one leading out and the one leading in Israel.”

[2:3]  ¹³ tc The expression “the cities of Hebron” is odd; we would expect the noun to be in the singular, if used at all. Although the Syriac Peshitta has the expected reading “in Hebron,” the MT is clearly the more difficult reading and should probably be retained here.

[3:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “silver.”

[3:7]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[3:7]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[3:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to the sea”