2 Samuel 5:6
Context5:6 Then the king and his men advanced to Jerusalem 1 against the Jebusites who lived in the land. The Jebusites 2 said to David, “You cannot invade this place! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back, saying, ‘David cannot invade this place!’”
2 Samuel 11:10
Context11:10 So they informed David, “Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven’t you gone down to your house?”
2 Samuel 17:22
Context17:22 So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. 3 By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.
2 Samuel 18:20
Context18:20 But Joab said to him, “You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today, 4 for the king’s son is dead.”
2 Samuel 23:5
Context23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, 5
for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,
arranged in all its particulars and secured.
He always delivers me,
and brings all I desire to fruition. 6


[5:6] 1 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[5:6] 2 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
[17:22] 3 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text here or in v. 24, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
[18:20] 5 tn Heb “but this day you will not bear good news.”
[23:5] 7 tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”
[23:5] 8 tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”