2 Samuel 7:3

7:3 Nathan replied to the king, “You should go ¹  and do whatever you have in mind, ²  for the Lord is with you.”

2 Samuel 8:15

8:15 David reigned over all Israel; he guaranteed justice for all his people. ³ 

2 Samuel 23:22

23:22 Such were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoida, who gained fame among the three elite warriors.

2 Samuel 23:24

23:24 Included with the thirty were the following: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo from Bethlehem, ⁴ 

2 Samuel 19:24

19:24 Now Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, ⁵  came down to meet the king. From the day the king had left until the day he safely ⁶  returned, Mephibosheth ⁷  had not cared for his feet ⁸  nor trimmed ⁹  his mustache nor washed his clothes.

2 Samuel 3:36

3:36 All the people noticed this and it pleased them. ¹⁰  In fact, everything the king did pleased all the people.

2 Samuel 12:6

12:6 Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!” ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 3:25

3:25 You know Abner the son of Ner! Surely he came here to spy on you and to determine when you leave and when you return ¹²  and to discover everything that you are doing!”

2 Samuel 3:27

3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him ¹³  in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. ¹⁴ 

2 Samuel 9:7

9:7 David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. You will be a regular guest at my table.” ¹⁵ 

2 Samuel 10:2

10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ¹⁶  to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal ¹⁷  to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. ¹⁸  When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 11:27

11:27 When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. ¹⁹  She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the Lord. ²⁰ 

2 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Your servant Joab did this so as to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like that of the angel of God, and knows everything that is happening in the land.” ²¹ 

2 Samuel 14:22

14:22 Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground and thanked ²²  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 ²³  servant!”

[7:3]  ¹ tc Several medieval Hebrew mss and the Syriac Peshitta lack this word.

[7:3]  ² tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

[8:15]  ³ tn Heb “and David was doing what is just and fair for all his people.”

[23:24]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[19:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “son.”

[19:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “in peace.” So also in v. 31.

[19:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Mephibosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “done his feet.”

[19:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “done.”

[3:36]  ⁹ tn Heb “it was good in their eyes.”

[12:6]  ¹¹ tc With the exception of the Lucianic recension, the Old Greek translation has here “sevenfold” rather than “fourfold,” a reading that S. R. Driver thought probably to be the original reading (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 291). However, Exod 22:1 [21:37 HT] specifies fourfold repayment for a stolen sheep, which is consistent with 2 Sam 12:6. Some mss of the Targum and the Syriac Peshitta exaggerate the idea to “fortyfold.”

[3:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “your going out and your coming in.” The expression is a merism. It specifically mentions the polar extremities of the actions but includes all activity in between the extremities as well, thus encompassing the entirety of one’s activities.

[3:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”

[3:27]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”

[9:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and you will eat food over my table continually.”

[10:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[10:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[10:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”

[11:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “David sent and gathered her to his house.”

[11:27]  ²² tn Heb “and the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of the Lord.” Note the verbal connection with v. 25. Though David did not regard the matter as evil, the Lord certainly did.

[14:20]  ²³ tn Heb “to know all that is in the land.”

[14:22]  ²⁵ tn Heb “blessed.”

[14:22]  ²⁶ tc The present translation reads with the Qere “your” rather than the MT “his.”