2 Samuel 1:17

David’s Tribute to Saul and Jonathan

1:17 Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

2 Samuel 4:7

4:7 They had entered ¹  the house while Ish-bosheth ²  was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him ³  and then cut off his head. ⁴  Taking his head, ⁵  they traveled on the way of the Arabah all that night.

2 Samuel 5:21

5:21 The Philistines ⁶  abandoned their idols ⁷  there, and David and his men picked them up.

2 Samuel 6:14

6:14 Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the Lord. ⁸ 

2 Samuel 7:13

7:13 He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 8:15

8:15 David reigned over all Israel; he guaranteed justice for all his people. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 10:1

David and the Ammonites

10:1 Later the king of the Ammonites died and his son Hanun succeeded him. ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 12:3

12:3 But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. ¹²  It used to ¹³  eat his food, ¹⁴  drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. ¹⁵  It was just like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 22:10

22:10 He made the sky sink ¹⁶  as he descended;

a thick cloud was under his feet.

2 Samuel 23:2

23:2 The Lord’s spirit spoke through me;

his word was on my tongue.

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¹ tn After the concluding disjunctive clause at the end of v. 6, the author now begins a more detailed account of the murder and its aftermath.

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ish-bosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “they struck him down and killed him.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

⁴ tn Heb “and they removed his head.” The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate lack these words.

⁵ tc The Lucianic Greek recension lacks the words “his head.”

⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Philistines) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tc For “idols” the LXX and Vulgate have “gods.”

⁸ tn Heb “and David was dancing with all his strength before the Lord, and David was girded with a linen ephod.”

⁹ tn Heb “and I will establish the throne of his kingdom permanently.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and David was doing what is just and fair for all his people.”

¹¹ tn Heb “reigned in his place.”

¹² tn Heb “his sons.”

¹³ tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical.

¹⁴ tn Heb “from his morsel.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lay.”

¹⁶ tn The verb נָטָה (natah) can carry the sense “[to cause to] bend; [to cause to] bow down” (see HALOT 693 s.v. נָטָה). For example, Gen 49:15 pictures Issachar as a donkey that “bends” its shoulder or back under a burden (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “He bowed the heavens”; NAB “He inclined the heavens”). Here the Lord causes the sky, pictured as a dome or vault, to bend or sink down as he descends in the storm.