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 ¹  with my wife? As surely as you are alive, ²  I will not do this thing!”

2 Samuel 13:32

13:32 Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, said, “My lord should not say, ‘They have killed all the young men who are the king’s sons.’ For only Amnon is dead. This is what Absalom has talked about ³  from the day that Amnon ⁴  humiliated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 15:20

15:20 It seems like you arrived just yesterday. Today should I make you wander around by going with us? I go where I must go. But as for you, go back and take your men ⁵  with you. May genuine loyal love ⁶  protect ⁷  you!”

2 Samuel 17:9

17:9 At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, ⁸  whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’

2 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Then King David sent a message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests saying, “Tell the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back to his palace, ⁹  when everything Israel is saying has come to the king’s attention. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 19:35

19:35 I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I ¹¹  taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I ¹²  continue to be a burden to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 24:13

24:13 Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven ¹³  years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide ¹⁴  what I should tell the one who sent me.”

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¹ tn Heb “and lay.”

² tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”

³ tn Heb “it was placed on the mouth of Absalom.”

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

⁵ tn Heb “brothers,” but see v. 22.

⁶ tn Heb “loyal love and truth.” The expression is a hendiadys.

⁷ tn Heb “be with.”

⁸ tn Heb “that he falls on them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] at the first [encounter]; or “that some of them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] fall at the first [encounter].”

⁹ tn Heb “his house.”

¹⁰ tc The Hebrew text adds “to his house” (= palace), but the phrase, which also appears earlier in the verse, is probably accidentally repeated here.

¹¹ tn Heb “your servant.”

¹² tn Heb “your servant.”

¹³ tc The LXX has here “three” rather than “seven,” and is followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT. See 1 Chr 21:12.

¹⁴ tn Heb “now know and see.”