2 Samuel 6:14

6:14 Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the Lord. ¹ 

2 Samuel 24:8

24:8 They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem. ² 

2 Samuel 7:7

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say ³  to any of the leaders ⁴  whom I appointed to care for ⁵  my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

2 Samuel 8:14

8:14 He placed garrisons throughout Edom, ⁶  and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. The Lord protected David wherever he campaigned.

2 Samuel 6:5

6:5 while David and all Israel ⁷  were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing ⁸  and playing various stringed instruments, ⁹  tambourines, rattles, ¹⁰  and cymbals.

2 Samuel 7:9

7:9 I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated ¹¹  all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth. ¹² 

2 Samuel 7:22

7:22 Therefore you are great, O Lord God, for there is none like you! There is no God besides you! What we have heard is true! ¹³ 

2 Samuel 8:6

8:6 David placed garrisons in the territory of the Arameans of Damascus; the Arameans became David’s subjects and brought tribute. The Lord protected ¹⁴  David wherever he campaigned. ¹⁵ 

2 Samuel 14:25

14:25 Now in all Israel everyone acknowledged that there was no man as handsome as Absalom. ¹⁶  From the sole of his feet to the top of his head he was perfect in appearance. ¹⁷ 

2 Samuel 15:10

15:10 Then Absalom sent spies through all the tribes of Israel who said, “When you hear the sound of the horn, you may assume ¹⁸  that Absalom rules in Hebron.”

2 Samuel 20:14

20:14 Sheba ¹⁹  traveled through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of ²⁰  Beth Maacah and all the Berite region. When they had assembled, ²¹  they too joined him.

2 Samuel 21:5

21:5 They replied to the king, “As for this man who exterminated us and who schemed against us so that we were destroyed and left without status throughout all the borders of Israel –

2 Samuel 3:21

3:21 Abner said to David, “Let me leave so that I may go and gather all Israel to my lord the king so that they may make an agreement ²²  with you. Then you will rule over all that you desire.” So David sent Abner away, and he left in peace.

2 Samuel 19:9

19:9 All the people throughout all the tribes of Israel were arguing among themselves saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies. He rescued us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, ²³ 

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. ²⁴ 

2 Samuel 24:2

24:2 The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.”

2 Samuel 14:19

14:19 The king said, “Did Joab put you up to all of this?” ²⁵  The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, there is no deviation to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has said. For your servant Joab gave me instructions. He has put all these words in your servant’s mouth.

[6:14]  ¹ tn Heb “and David was dancing with all his strength before the Lord, and David was girded with a linen ephod.”

[24:8]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[7:7]  ³ tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.

[7:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”

[7:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).

[8:14]  ⁴ tc The MT is repetitious here: “He placed in Edom garrisons; in all Edom he placed garrisons.” The Vulgate lacks “in all Edom”; most of the Greek tradition (with the exception of the Lucianic recension and the recension of Origen) and the Syriac Peshitta lack “he placed garrisons.” The MT reading appears here to be the result of a conflation of variant readings.

[6:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the house of Israel.”

[6:5]  ⁶ tc Heb “were celebrating before the Lord with all woods of fir” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). If the text is retained, the last expression must be elliptical, referring to musical instruments made from fir wood. But it is preferable to emend the text in light of 1 Chr 13:8, which reads “were celebrating before the Lord with all strength and with songs.”

[6:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “with zithers [?] and with harps.”

[6:5]  ⁸ tn That is, “sistrums” (so NAB, NIV); ASV, NASB, NRSV, CEV, NLT “castanets.”

[7:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “cut off.”

[7:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “and I will make for you a great name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.”

[7:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “in all which we heard with our ears.” The phrase translated “in all” בְּכֹל (bÿkhol) should probably be emended to “according to all” כְּכֹל (kÿkhol).

[8:6]  ⁸ tn Or “delivered.”

[8:6]  ⁹ tn Or “wherever he went.”

[14:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “Like Absalom there was not a handsome man in all Israel to boast exceedingly.”

[14:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “there was not in him a blemish.”

[15:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “say.”

[20:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sheba) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:14]  ¹² tc In keeping with the form of the name in v. 15, the translation deletes the “and” found in the MT.

[20:14]  ¹³ tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading וַיִּקָּהֲלוּ (vayyiqqahalu, “and they were gathered together”) rather than the Kethib of the MT וַיִּקְלֻהוּ (vayyiqluhu, “and they cursed him”). The Kethib is the result of metathesis.

[3:21]  ¹² tn After the cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.

[23:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

[23:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”

[14:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”