2 Samuel 11:13
11:13 Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.
2 Samuel 11:25
11:25 David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing upset you. 1 There is no way to anticipate whom the sword will cut down. 2 Press the battle against the city and conquer 3 it.’ Encourage him with these words.” 4
2 Samuel 12:9
12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my 5 sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! 6 You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
2 Samuel 13:5-6
13:5 Jonadab replied to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. 7 When your father comes in to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.’”
13:6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came in to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can make a couple of cakes in my sight. Then I will eat from her hand.”
2 Samuel 14:22
14:22 Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground and thanked 8 the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, because the king has granted the request of your 9 servant!”
2 Samuel 17:18
17:18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.
2 Samuel 18:28
18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!” 10 He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated 11 the men who opposed 12 my lord the king!”
2 Samuel 21:17
21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying, “You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”
1 tn Heb “let not this matter be evil in your eyes.”
2 tn Heb “according to this and according to this the sword devours.”
3 tn Heb “overthrow.”
4 tn The Hebrew text does not have “with these words.” They are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
5 tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”
6 tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.
7 tn This verb is used in the Hitpael stem only in this chapter of the Hebrew Bible. With the exception of v. 2 it describes not a real sickness but one pretended in order to entrap Tamar. The Hitpael sometimes, as here, describes the subject making oneself appear to be of a certain character. On this use of the stem, see GKC 149-50 §54.e.
8 tn Heb “blessed.”
9 tc The present translation reads with the Qere “your” rather than the MT “his.”
10 tn Heb “Peace.”
11 tn Heb “delivered over.”
12 tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”