Discovery Box2 Samuel 7:27
Context7:27 for you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have told 1 your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ 2 That is why your servant has had the courage 3 to pray this prayer to you.
2 Samuel 7:29
Context7:29 Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty 4 so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!” 5
2 Samuel 9:10-11
Context9:10 You will cultivate 6 the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce 7 and it will be 8 food for your master’s grandson to eat. 9 But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)
9:11 Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do everything that my lord the king has instructed his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth was a regular guest 10 at David’s table, 11 just as though he were one of the king’s sons.
2 Samuel 10:2
Context10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty 12 to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal 13 to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. 14 When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,
2 Samuel 14:22
Context14:22 Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground and thanked 15 the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, because the king has granted the request of your 16 servant!”
2 Samuel 14:30
Context14:30 So he said to his servants, “Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.” 17 So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s 18 portion of the field on fire.
2 Samuel 18:29
Context18:29 The king replied, “How is the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz replied, “I saw a great deal of confusion when Joab was sending the king’s servant and me, your servant, but I don’t know what it was all about.”
2 Samuel 19:37
Context19:37 Let me 19 return so that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But look, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever seems appropriate to you.”
[7:27] 1 tn Heb “have uncovered the ear of.”
[7:27] 2 tn Heb “a house.” This maintains the wordplay from v. 11 (see the note on the word “house” there) and is continued in v. 29.
[7:27] 3 tn Heb “has found his heart.”
[7:29] 4 tn Heb “house” (again later in this verse). See the note on “dynastic house” in v. 27.
[7:29] 5 tn Or “permanently”; cf. NLT “it is an eternal blessing.”
[9:10] 8 tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.
[9:10] 9 tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.
[9:10] 10 tn Heb “and he will eat it.”
[9:11] 11 tc Heb “my table.” But the first person reference to David is awkward here since the quotation of David’s words has already been concluded in v. 10; nor does the “my” refer to Ziba, since the latter part of v. 11 does not seem to be part of Ziba’s response to the king. The ancient versions are not unanimous in the way that they render the phrase. The LXX has “the table of David” (τῆς τραπέζης Δαυιδ, th" trapezh" Dauid); the Syriac Peshitta has “the table of the king” (patureh demalka’); the Vulgate has “your table” (mensam tuam). The present translation follows the LXX.
[10:2] 13 tn Heb “do loyalty.”
[10:2] 14 tn Heb “did loyalty.”
[10:2] 15 tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”
[14:22] 17 tc The present translation reads with the Qere “your” rather than the MT “his.”
[14:30] 19 tc The LXX adds here the following words: “And the servants of Absalom burned them up. And the servants of Joab came to him, rending their garments. They said….”
[14:30] 20 tn The word “Joab’s” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
