2 Samuel 9:1

David Finds Mephibosheth

9:1 ¹ Then David asked, “Is anyone still left from the family ²  of Saul, so that I may extend kindness to him for the sake of Jonathan?”

2 Samuel 2:6

2:6 Now may the Lord show you true kindness! ³  I also will reward you, ⁴  because you have done this deed.

2 Samuel 9:3

9:3 The king asked, “Is there not someone left from Saul’s family, ⁵  that I may extend God’s kindness to him?” Ziba said to the king, “One of Jonathan’s sons is left; both of his feet are crippled.”

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.” ⁶ 

2 Samuel 2:5

2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness ⁷  to your lord Saul by burying him.

2 Samuel 10:2

10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ⁸  to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal ⁹  to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. ¹⁰  When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 6:5

6:5 while David and all Israel ¹¹  were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing ¹²  and playing various stringed instruments, ¹³  tambourines, rattles, ¹⁴  and cymbals.

2 Samuel 16:17

16:17 Absalom said to Hushai, “Do you call this loyalty to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

2 Samuel 22:26

22:26 You prove to be loyal ¹⁵  to one who is faithful; ¹⁶ 

you prove to be trustworthy ¹⁷  to one who is innocent. ¹⁸ 

2 Samuel 22:51

22:51 He gives his chosen king magnificent victories; ¹⁹ 

he is faithful to his chosen ruler, ²⁰ 

to David and to his descendants forever!”

2 Samuel 19:7

19:7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to ²¹  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 15:20

15:20 It seems like you arrived just yesterday. Today should I make you wander around by going with us? I go where I must go. But as for you, go back and take your men ²²  with you. May genuine loyal love ²³  protect ²⁴  you!”

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 9:8

9:8 Then Mephibosheth ²⁵  bowed and said, “Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?” ²⁶ 

2 Samuel 13:24

13:24 Then Absalom went to the king and said, “My shearers have begun their work. ²⁷  Let the king and his servants go with me.”

2 Samuel 3:8

3:8 These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating ²⁸  loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives ²⁹  and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today! ³⁰ 

2 Samuel 13:18

13:18 (Now she was wearing a long robe, ³¹  for this is what the king’s virgin daughters used to wear.) So Amnon’s ³²  attendant removed her and bolted the door ³³  behind her.

[9:1]  ¹ sn 2 Samuel 9–20 is known as the Succession Narrative. It is a literary unit that describes David’s efforts at consolidating his own kingdom following the demise of King Saul; it also provides the transition to subsequent leadership on the part of David’s successor Solomon.

[9:1]  ² tn Heb “house.”

[2:6]  ³ tn Or “loyalty and devotion.”

[2:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “will do with you this good.”

[9:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “house.”

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

[2:5]  ⁹ tn Or “loyalty.”

[10:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[10:2]  ¹² tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[10:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”

[6:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “all the house of Israel.”

[6:5]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “with zithers [?] and with harps.”

[6:5]  ¹⁶ tn That is, “sistrums” (so NAB, NIV); ASV, NASB, NRSV, CEV, NLT “castanets.”

[22:26]  ¹⁵ tn The imperfect verbal forms in vv. 26-30 draw attention to God’s characteristic actions. Based on his experience, the psalmist generalizes about God’s just dealings with people (vv. 26-28) and about the way in which God typically empowers him on the battlefield (vv. 29-30). The Hitpael stem is used in vv. 26-27 in a reflexive resultative (or causative) sense. God makes himself loyal, etc. in the sense that he conducts or reveals himself as such. On this use of the Hitpael stem, see GKC 149-50 §54.e.

[22:26]  ¹⁶ tn Or “to a faithful follower.” A חָסִיד (khasid, “faithful follower”) is one who does what is right in God’s eyes and remains faithful to God (see Pss 4:3; 12:1; 16:10; 31:23; 37:28; 86:2; 97:10).

[22:26]  ¹⁷ tn Or “innocent.”

[22:26]  ¹⁸ tc Heb “a warrior of innocence.” The parallel text in Ps 18:25 reads, probably correctly, גֶּבֶר (gever, “man”) instead of גִּבּוֹר (gibor, “warrior”).

[22:51]  ¹⁷ tc The translation follows the Kethib and the ancient versions in reading מַגְדִּיל (magdil, “he magnifies”) rather than the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss of the MT which read מִגְדּוֹל (migdol, “tower”). See Ps 18:50.

[22:51]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “[the one who] does loyalty to his anointed one.”

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

[15:20]  ²¹ tn Heb “brothers,” but see v. 22.

[15:20]  ²² tn Heb “loyal love and truth.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[15:20]  ²³ tn Heb “be with.”

[9:8]  ²³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Mephibosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “What is your servant, that you turn to a dead dog which is like me?”

[13:24]  ²⁵ tn Heb “your servant has sheepshearers.” The phrase “your servant” also occurs at the end of the verse.

[3:8]  ²⁷ tn Heb “I do.”

[3:8]  ²⁸ tn Heb “brothers.”

[3:8]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and you have laid upon me the guilt of the woman today.”

[13:18]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew expression used here (כְּתֹנֶת פַּסִּים, kÿtonet passim) is found only here and in Gen 37:3, 23, 32. Hebrew פַּס (pas) can refer to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot; here the idea is probably that of a long robe reaching to the feet and having sleeves reaching to the wrists. The notion of a “coat of many colors” (KJV, ASV “garment of divers colors”), a familiar translation for the phrase in Genesis, is based primarily on the translation adopted in the LXX χιτῶνα ποικίλον (citona poikilion) and does not have a great deal of support.

[13:18]  ³⁰ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Amnon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:18]  ³¹ tn The Hebrew verb is a perfect with nonconsecutive vav, probably indicating an action (locking the door) that complements the preceding one (pushing her out the door).