2 Samuel 7:18

David Offers a Prayer to God

7:18 King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, ¹  that you should have brought me to this point?

2 Samuel 11:11

11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations ²  with my wife? As surely as you are alive, ³  I will not do this thing!”

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, ⁴ 

for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,

arranged in all its particulars and secured.

He always delivers me,

and brings all I desire to fruition. ⁵ 

[7:18]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[11:11]  ² tn Heb “and lay.”

[11:11]  ³ tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”

[23:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

[23:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”