2 Samuel 7:15

7:15 But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

2 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But he refused to listen to her. ¹  He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her. ² 

2 Samuel 20:5

20:5 So Amasa went out to call Judah together. But in doing so he took longer than the time that the king had allotted him.

2 Samuel 22:9

22:9 Smoke ascended from ³  his nose; ⁴ 

fire devoured as it came from his mouth; ⁵ 

he hurled down fiery coals. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 23:19

23:19 From ⁷  the three he was given honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of the three.

2 Samuel 23:23

23:23 He received honor from ⁸  the thirty warriors, though he was not one of the three elite warriors. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

[13:14]  ¹ tn Heb “to her voice.”

[13:14]  ² tn Heb “and he humiliated her and lay with her.”

[22:9]  ¹ tn Heb “within” or “[from] within.” For a discussion of the use of the preposition בְּ (bet) here, see R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 163-64.

[22:9]  ² tn Or “in his anger.” The noun אַף (’af) can carry the abstract meaning “anger,” but the parallelism (note “from his mouth”) suggests the more concrete meaning “nose” here (most English versions, “nostrils”). See also v. 16, “the powerful breath of your nose.”

[22:9]  ³ tn Heb “fire from his mouth devoured.” In this poetic narrative the prefixed verbal form is best understood as a preterite indicating past tense, not an imperfect. Note the two perfect verbal forms in the verse.

[22:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “coals burned from him.” Perhaps the psalmist pictures God’s fiery breath igniting coals (see Job 41:21), which he then hurls as weapons (see Ps 120:4).

[23:19]  ¹ tn Or “more than.”

[23:23]  ¹ tn Or “more than.”