2 Samuel 1:10

1:10 So I stood over him and put him to death, since I knew that he couldn’t live in such a condition. ¹  Then I took the crown which was on his head and the ²  bracelet which was on his arm. I have brought them here to my lord.” ³ 

2 Samuel 3:27

3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him ⁴  in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. ⁵ 

2 Samuel 6:21

6:21 David replied to Michal, “It was before the Lord! I was celebrating before the Lord, who chose me over your father and his entire family ⁶  and appointed me as leader over the Lord’s people Israel.

2 Samuel 7:8

7:8 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd ⁷  to make you leader of my people Israel.

2 Samuel 9:7

9:7 David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. You will be a regular guest at my table.” ⁸ 

2 Samuel 10:2

10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ⁹  to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal ¹⁰  to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. ¹¹  When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 13:13

13:13 How could I ever be rid of my humiliation? And you would be considered one of the fools ¹²  in Israel! Just ¹³  speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

2 Samuel 19:42

19:42 All the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative! Why are you so upset about this? Have we eaten at the king’s expense? ¹⁴  Or have we misappropriated anything for our own use?”

2 Samuel 21:2

21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to ¹⁵  them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

2 Samuel 24:21

24:21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To buy from you the threshing floor so I can build an altar for the Lord, so that the plague may be removed from the people.”

[1:10]  ¹ tn Heb “after his falling”; NAB “could not survive his wound”; CEV “was too badly wounded to live much longer.”

[1:10]  ² tc The MT lacks the definite article, but this is likely due to textual corruption. It is preferable to read the alef (א) of אֶצְעָדָה (’ets’adah) as a ה (he) giving הַצְּעָדָה (hatsÿ’adah). There is no reason to think that the soldier confiscated from Saul’s dead body only one of two or more bracelets that he was wearing (cf. NLT “one of his bracelets”).

[1:10]  ³ sn The claims that the soldier is making here seem to contradict the story of Saul’s death as presented in 1 Sam 31:3-5. In that passage it appears that Saul took his own life, not that he was slain by a passerby who happened on the scene. Some scholars account for the discrepancy by supposing that conflicting accounts have been brought together in the MT. However, it is likely that the young man is here fabricating the account in a self-serving way so as to gain favor with David, or so he supposes. He probably had come across Saul’s corpse, stolen the crown and bracelet from the body, and now hopes to curry favor with David by handing over to him these emblems of Saul’s royalty. But in so doing the Amalekite greatly miscalculated David’s response to this alleged participation in Saul’s death. The consequence of his lies will instead be his own death.

[3:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”

[3:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”

[6:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “all his house”; CEV “anyone else in your family.”

[7:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “and from after the sheep.”

[9:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “and you will eat food over my table continually.”

[10:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[10:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[10:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”

[13:13]  ¹² tn Heb “and you will be like one of the fools.”

[13:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “Now.”

[19:42]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “from the king.”

[21:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “swore an oath to.”