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 9:3

9:3 The king asked, “Is there not someone left from Saul’s family, ²  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 14:11

14:11 She replied, “In that case, ³  let the king invoke the name of ⁴  the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head ⁵  will fall to the ground.”

2 Samuel 14:13-14

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. 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. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 18:28

18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!” ⁷  He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated ⁸  the men who opposed ⁹  my lord the king!”

2 Samuel 24:24

24:24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it from you! I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.”

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver. ¹⁰ 

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

[9:3]  ² tn Heb “house.”

[14:11]  ³ tn The words “in that case” are not in the Hebrew text, but may be inferred from the context. They are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarification.

[14:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “let the king remember.”

[14:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “of your son.”

[14:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “he devises plans for the one banished from him not to be banished.”

[18:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “Peace.”

[18:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “delivered over.”

[18:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”

[24:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fifty shekels of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.