2 Samuel 1:16

1:16 David said to him, “Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying ‘I have put the Lord’s anointed to death.’”

2 Samuel 5:19

5:19 So David asked the Lord, “Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The Lord said to David, “March up, for I will indeed 1  hand the Philistines over to you.”

2 Samuel 5:23

5:23 So David asked the Lord what he should do. 2  This time 3  the Lord 4  said to him, “Don’t march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees. 5 

2 Samuel 12:13

12:13 Then David exclaimed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord!” Nathan replied to David, “Yes, and the Lord has forgiven 6  your sin. You are not going to die.

2 Samuel 14:13

14:13 The woman said, “Why have you devised something like this against God’s people? When the king speaks in this fashion, he makes himself guilty, for the king has not brought back the one he has banished.

2 Samuel 18:31-32

18:31 Then the Cushite arrived and said, 7  “May my lord the king now receive the good news! The Lord has vindicated you today and delivered you from the hand of all who have rebelled against you!” 8  18:32 The king asked the Cushite, “How is the young man Absalom?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who have plotted against you 9  be like that young man!”

2 Samuel 21:5

21:5 They replied to the king, “As for this man who exterminated us and who schemed against us so that we were destroyed and left without status throughout all the borders of Israel –

2 Samuel 24:12

24:12 “Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three forms of judgment. Pick one of them and I will carry it out against you.’”

1 tn The infinitive absolute lends emphasis to the following verb.

2 tn The words “what to do” are not in the Hebrew text.

3 tn The words “this time” are not in the Hebrew text.

4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Some translate as “balsam trees” (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, NJB, NLT); cf. KJV, NKJV, ASV “mulberry trees”; NAB “mastic trees”; NEB, REB “aspens.” The exact identification of the type of tree or plant is uncertain.

6 tn Heb “removed.”

7 tn Heb “And look, the Cushite came and the Cushite said.”

8 tn Heb “for the Lord has vindicated you today from the hand of all those rising against you.”

9 tn Heb “and all those rising against you for evil.”