2 Samuel 2:6

2:6 Now may the Lord show you true kindness! ¹  I also will reward you, ²  because you have done this deed.

2 Samuel 2:16

2:16 As they grappled with one another, each one stabbed his opponent with his sword and they fell dead together. ³  So that place is called the Field of Flints; ⁴  it is in Gibeon.

2 Samuel 3:9

3:9 God will severely judge Abner ⁵  if I do not do for David exactly what the Lord has promised him, ⁶ 

2 Samuel 3:39

3:39 Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear! ⁷  May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!” ⁸ 

2 Samuel 6:22

6:22 I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! ⁹  But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!”

2 Samuel 8:4

8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers ¹⁰  and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 10:12

10:12 Be strong! Let’s fight bravely for the sake of our people and the cities of our God! The Lord will do what he decides is best!” ¹² 

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.” ¹³  So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s ¹⁴  portion of the field on fire.

2 Samuel 15:4

15:4 Absalom would then say, “If only they would make me ¹⁵  a judge in the land! Then everyone who had a judicial complaint ¹⁶  could come to me and I would make sure he receives a just settlement.”

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. ¹⁷ 

2 Samuel 19:18

19:18 They crossed at the ford in order to help the king’s household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate.

Now after he had crossed the Jordan, Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king.

2 Samuel 19:38

19:38 The king replied, “Kimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever I deem appropriate. And whatever you choose, I will do for you.”

2 Samuel 24:2

24:2 The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.”

[2:6]  ¹ tn Or “loyalty and devotion.”

[2:6]  ² tn Heb “will do with you this good.”

[2:16]  ³ tn Heb “and they grabbed each one the head of his neighbor with his sword in the side of his neighbor and they fell together.”

[2:16]  ⁴ tn The meaning of the name “Helkath Hazzurim” (so NIV; KJV, NASB, NRSV similar) is not clear. BHK relates the name to the Hebrew term for “side,” and this is reflected in NAB “the Field of the Sides”; the Greek OT revocalizes the Hebrew to mean something like “Field of Adversaries.” Cf. also TEV, NLT “Field of Swords”; CEV “Field of Daggers.”

[3:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “So will God do to Abner and so he will add to him.”

[3:9]  ⁶ tc Heb “has sworn to David.” The LXX, with the exception of the recension of Origen, adds “in this day.”

[3:39]  ⁷ tn Heb “are hard from me.”

[3:39]  ⁸ tn Heb “May the Lord repay the doer of the evil according to his evil” (NASB similar).

[6:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “and I will shame myself still more than this and I will be lowly in my eyes.”

[8:4]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.

[8:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”

[10:12]  ¹² tn Heb “and the Lord will do what is good in his eyes.”

[14:30]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn The word “Joab’s” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Who will make me?”

[15:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a complaint and a judgment.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[18:17]  ¹⁷ 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).