2 Samuel 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ¹  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 4:8

4:8 They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against ²  Saul and his descendants!”

2 Samuel 7:7

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say ³  to any of the leaders ⁴  whom I appointed to care for ⁵  my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

2 Samuel 14:13

14:13 The woman said, “Why have you devised something like this against God’s people? When the king speaks in this fashion, he makes himself guilty, for the king has not brought back the one he has banished.

2 Samuel 18:2

18:2 David then sent out the army – a third under the leadership of Joab, a third under the leadership of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under the leadership of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I too will indeed march out with you.”

2 Samuel 19:9

19:9 All the people throughout all the tribes of Israel were arguing among themselves saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies. He rescued us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.

2 Samuel 20:10

20:10 Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab ⁶  stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s ⁷  intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. ⁸  Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.

2 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa ⁹  stopped, the man ¹⁰  pulled him ¹¹  away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

2 Samuel 21:20

21:20 Yet another battle occurred in Gath. On that occasion there was a large man ¹²  who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all! He too was a descendant of Rapha.

[3:35]  ¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[4:8]  ² tn Heb “from.”

[7:7]  ³ tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.

[7:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”

[7:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).

[20:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he did not repeat concerning him, and he died.”

[20:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man who spoke up in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Amasa.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.

[21:20]  ¹² tn Heb “a man of stature.”