2 Samuel 14:14

14:14 Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored. ¹ 

2 Samuel 15:25

15:25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.

2 Samuel 21:1

The Gibeonites Demand Revenge

21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. ²  The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, ³  because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

[14:14]  ¹ tn Heb “he devises plans for the one banished from him not to be banished.”

[21:1]  ² tn Heb “sought the face of the Lord.”

[21:1]  ³ tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”