2 Samuel 3:9

3:9 God will severely judge Abner ¹  if I do not do for David exactly what the Lord has promised him, ² 

2 Samuel 7:25

7:25 So now, O Lord God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality. ³  Do as you promised, ⁴ 

2 Samuel 13:29

13:29 So Absalom’s servants did to Amnon exactly what Absalom had instructed. Then all the king’s sons got up; each one rode away on his mule and fled.

2 Samuel 14:30

14:30 So he said to his servants, “Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.” ⁵  So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s ⁶  portion of the field on fire.

2 Samuel 21:14

21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything ⁷  that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers ⁸  for the land.

[3:9]  ¹ tn Heb “So will God do to Abner and so he will add to him.”

[3:9]  ² tc Heb “has sworn to David.” The LXX, with the exception of the recension of Origen, adds “in this day.”

[7:25]  ³ tn Heb “and now, O Lord God, the word which you spoke concerning your servant and concerning his house, establish permanently.”

[7:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “as you have spoken.”

[14:30]  ⁵ tc The LXX adds here the following words: “And the servants of Absalom burned them up. And the servants of Joab came to him, rending their garments. They said….”

[14:30]  ⁶ tn The word “Joab’s” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[21:14]  ⁷ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have here כְּכֹל (kÿkhol, “according to all”).

[21:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).