2 Samuel 5:4

5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned for forty years.

2 Samuel 5:10

5:10 David’s power grew steadily, for the Lord God ¹  who commands armies ²  was with him. ³ 

2 Samuel 5:21

5:21 The Philistines ⁴  abandoned their idols ⁵  there, and David and his men picked them up.

2 Samuel 15:37

15:37 So David’s friend Hushai arrived in the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 24:19

24:19 So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the Lord’s instructions.

[5:10]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Traditionally, “the Lord God of hosts” (KJV, NASB); NIV, NLT “the Lord God Almighty”; CEV “the Lord (+ God NCV) All-Powerful.”

[5:10]  ³ tn The translation assumes that the disjunctive clause is circumstantial-causal, giving the reason for David’s success.

[5:21]  ¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Philistines) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:21]  ² tc For “idols” the LXX and Vulgate have “gods.”