2 Samuel 12:9-12

12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my ¹  sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! ²  You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 12:10 So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’ 12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ³  from inside your own household! ⁴  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ⁵  He will have sexual relations with ⁶  your wives in broad daylight! ⁷  12:12 Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’” ⁸ 

2 Samuel 13:28

13:28 Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk ⁹  and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!” ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 20:9-10

20:9 Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my brother?” With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa’s beard as if to greet him with a kiss. 20:10 Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab ¹¹  stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s ¹²  intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. ¹³  Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.

[12:9]  ¹ tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”

[12:9]  ² tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.

[12:11]  ³ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Or “friend.”

[12:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

[12:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “and before the sun.”

[13:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “when good is the heart of Amnon with wine.”

[13:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and become sons of valor.”

[20:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:10]  ¹² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he did not repeat concerning him, and he died.”