2 Samuel 2:4

2:4 The men of Judah came and there they anointed David as king over the people ¹  of Judah.

David was told, ²  “The people ³  of Jabesh Gilead are the ones who buried Saul.”

2 Samuel 3:1

3:1 However, the war was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David. David was becoming steadily stronger, while the house of Saul was becoming increasingly weaker.

2 Samuel 3:31

3:31 David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!” Now King David followed ⁴  behind the funeral bier.

2 Samuel 8:14

8:14 He placed garrisons throughout Edom, ⁵  and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. The Lord protected David wherever he campaigned.

2 Samuel 10:17

10:17 When David was informed, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan River, ⁶  and came to Helam. The Arameans deployed their forces against David and fought with him.

2 Samuel 12:19

12:19 When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he ⁷  realized that the child was dead. So David asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” They replied, “Yes, he’s dead.”

2 Samuel 13:1

The Rape of Tamar

13:1 Now David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. In the course of time David’s son Amnon fell madly in love with her. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 15:31

15:31 Now David ⁹  had been told, “Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, ¹⁰  “Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!”

2 Samuel 21:15

Israel Engages in Various Battles with the Philistines

21:15 Another battle was fought between the Philistines and Israel. So David went down with his soldiers ¹¹  and fought the Philistines. David became exhausted.

[2:4]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “and they told David.” The subject appears to be indefinite, allowing one to translate the verb as passive with David as subject.

[2:4]  ³ tn Heb “men.”

[3:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “was walking.”

[8:14]  ⁵ tc The MT is repetitious here: “He placed in Edom garrisons; in all Edom he placed garrisons.” The Vulgate lacks “in all Edom”; most of the Greek tradition (with the exception of the Lucianic recension and the recension of Origen) and the Syriac Peshitta lack “he placed garrisons.” The MT reading appears here to be the result of a conflation of variant readings.

[10:17]  ⁶ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[12:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.

[13:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “Amnon the son of David loved her.” The following verse indicates the extreme nature of his infatuation, so the translation uses “madly in love” here.

[13:1]  sn Amnon was the half-brother of Tamar; Absalom was her full blood-brother.

[15:31]  ⁹ tc The translation follows 4QSam^a, part of the Greek tradition, the Syriac Peshitta, Targum, and Vulgate uldavid in reading “and to David,” rather than MT וְדָוִד (vÿdavid, “and David”). As Driver points out, the Hebrew verb הִגִּיד (higgid, “he related”) never uses the accusative for the person to whom something is told (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 316).

[15:31]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “said.”

[21:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his servants.”