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 5:7

5:7 But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David).

2 Samuel 7:12

7:12 When the time comes for you to die, ²  I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, ³  and I will establish his kingdom.

2 Samuel 9:2

9:2 Now there was a servant from Saul’s house named Ziba, so he was summoned to David. The king asked him, “Are you Ziba?” He replied, “At your service.” ⁴ 

2 Samuel 9:9

9:9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s attendant, and said to him, “Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master’s grandson.

2 Samuel 16:8

16:8 The Lord has punished you for ⁵  all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 17:19

17:19 His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.

2 Samuel 18:17

18:17 They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 19:17

19:17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant ⁷  of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed ⁸  the Jordan within sight of the king.

2 Samuel 22:7

22:7 In my distress I called to the Lord;

I called to my God. ⁹ 

From his heavenly temple ¹⁰  he heard my voice;

he listened to my cry for help. ¹¹ 

[2:10]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[7:12]  ² tn Heb, “when your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors.”

[7:12]  ³ tn Heb “your seed after you who comes out from your insides.”

[9:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “your servant.”

[16:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”

[18:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “and all Israel fled, each to his tent.” In this context this refers to the supporters of Absalom (see vv. 6-7, 16).

[19:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “youth.”

[19:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “rushed into.”

[22:7]  ⁹ tn In this poetic narrative the two prefixed verbal forms in v. 7a are best understood as preterites indicating past tense, not imperfects. Note the use of the vav consecutive with the prefixed verbal form that follows in v. 7b.

[22:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “from his temple.” Verse 10, which pictures God descending from the sky, indicates that the heavenly, not earthly, temple is in view.

[22:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and my cry for help [entered] his ears.”