2 Samuel 6:23

6:23 Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

2 Samuel 8:2

8:2 He defeated the Moabites. He made them lie on the ground and then used a rope to measure them off. He put two-thirds of them to death and spared the other third. ¹  The Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute. ² 

2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ³  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ⁴  and it will be ⁵  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ⁶  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 10:15

10:15 When the Arameans realized that they had been defeated by Israel, they consolidated their forces. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 11:5

11:5 The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying, “I’m pregnant.”

2 Samuel 12:26

David’s Forces Defeat the Ammonites

12:26 ⁸ So Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.

2 Samuel 14:2

14:2 So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman. He told her, “Pretend to be in mourning ⁹  and put on garments for mourning. Don’t anoint yourself with oil. Instead, act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for some time. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 14:32

14:32 Absalom said to Joab, “Look, I sent a message to you saying, ‘Come here so that I can send you to the king with this message: ¹¹  “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.”’ Let me now see the face of the king. If I am at fault, let him put me to death!”

2 Samuel 17:4

17:4 This seemed like a good idea to Absalom and to all the leaders ¹²  of Israel.

2 Samuel 17:23

17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave ¹³  of his father.

2 Samuel 19:7

19:7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to ¹⁴  your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”

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 ¹⁵  against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute ¹⁶  his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

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!”

2 Samuel 22:10

22:10 He made the sky sink ¹⁷  as he descended;

a thick cloud was under his feet.

2 Samuel 23:17

23:17 and said, “O Lord, I will not do this! ¹⁸  It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” ¹⁹  So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors. ²⁰ 

[8:2]  ¹ tn Heb “and he measured [with] two [lengths] of rope to put to death and [with] the fullness of the rope to keep alive.”

[8:2]  ² tn Heb “and the Moabites were servants of David, carriers of tribute.”

[9:10]  ¹ tn Heb “work.”

[9:10]  ² tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

[9:10]  ³ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

[9:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

[10:15]  ¹ tn Heb “were gathered together.”

[12:26]  ¹ sn Here the narrative resumes the battle story that began in 11:1 (see 11:25). The author has interrupted that story to give the related account of David’s sin with Bathsheba and the murder of Uriah. He now returns to the earlier story and brings it to a conclusion.

[14:2]  ¹ tn The Hebrew Hitpael verbal form here indicates pretended rather than genuine action.

[14:2]  ² tn Heb “these many days.”

[14:32]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[17:4]  ¹ tn Heb “elders.”

[17:23]  ¹ tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”

[19:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and speak to the heart of.”

[20:21]  ¹ tn Heb “lifted his hand.”

[20:21]  ² tn Heb “Look!”

[22:10]  ¹ tn The verb נָטָה (natah) can carry the sense “[to cause to] bend; [to cause to] bow down” (see HALOT 693 s.v. נָטָה). For example, Gen 49:15 pictures Issachar as a donkey that “bends” its shoulder or back under a burden (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “He bowed the heavens”; NAB “He inclined the heavens”). Here the Lord causes the sky, pictured as a dome or vault, to bend or sink down as he descends in the storm.

[23:17]  ¹ tn Heb “Far be it to me, O Lord, from doing this.”

[23:17]  ² tn Heb “[Is it not] the blood of the men who were going with their lives?”

[23:17]  ³ tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”