2 Samuel 2:10

2:10 Ish-bosheth son of Saul was forty years old when he began to rule over Israel. He ruled two years. However, the people ¹  of Judah followed David.

2 Samuel 5:12

5:12 David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and that he had elevated his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

2 Samuel 6:22

6:22 I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! ²  But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!”

2 Samuel 7:24

7:24 You made Israel your very own people for all time. ³  You, O Lord, became their God.

2 Samuel 12:22

12:22 He replied, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ⁴  ‘Perhaps ⁵  the Lord will show pity and the child will live.

2 Samuel 14:29

14:29 Then Absalom sent a message to Joab asking him to send him to the king, but Joab was not willing to come to him. So he sent a second message to him, but he still was not willing to come.

2 Samuel 16:3-4

16:3 The king asked, “Where is your master’s grandson?” ⁶  Ziba replied to the king, “He remains in Jerusalem, ⁷  for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give back to me my grandfather’s ⁸  kingdom.’” 16:4 The king said to Ziba, “Everything that was Mephibosheth’s now belongs to you.” Ziba replied, “I bow before you. May I find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ⁹  God will punish me severely, ¹⁰  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

2 Samuel 20:19

20:19 I represent the peaceful and the faithful in Israel. You are attempting to destroy an important city ¹¹  in Israel. Why should you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”

2 Samuel 22:51

22:51 He gives his chosen king magnificent victories; ¹² 

he is faithful to his chosen ruler, ¹³ 

to David and to his descendants forever!”

2 Samuel 24:4

24:4 But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of ¹⁴  Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king’s presence in order to muster the Israelite army.

[2:10]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[6:22]  ² tn Heb “and I will shame myself still more than this and I will be lowly in my eyes.”

[7:24]  ³ tn Heb “and you established for yourself your people Israel for yourself for a people permanently.”

[12:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “said.”

[12:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “Who knows?”

[16:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “son.”

[16:3]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[16:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “my father’s.”

[19:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

[19:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[20:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a city and a mother.” The expression is a hendiadys, meaning that this city was an important one in Israel and had smaller cities dependent on it.

[22:51]  ¹² tc The translation follows the Kethib and the ancient versions in reading מַגְדִּיל (magdil, “he magnifies”) rather than the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss of the MT which read מִגְדּוֹל (migdol, “tower”). See Ps 18:50.

[22:51]  ¹³ tn Heb “[the one who] does loyalty to his anointed one.”

[24:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the word of the king was stronger than.”