2 Samuel 2:13

2:13 Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David also went out and confronted them at the pool of Gibeon. One group stationed themselves on one side of the pool, and the other group on the other side of the pool.

2 Samuel 6:12

6:12 David was told,¹ “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house,² Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him.³ She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished⁴ himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool⁵ might do!”

2 Samuel 7:23

7:23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation⁶ on the earth? Their God⁷ went⁸ to claim⁹ a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land,¹⁰ before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.¹¹

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 12:20

12:20 So David got up from the ground, bathed, put on oil, and changed his clothes. He went to the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then, when he entered his palace, he requested that food be brought to him, and he ate.

2 Samuel 17:8

17:8 Hushai went on to say, “You know your father and his men – they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs.¹² Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.

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 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his¹³ mule, it¹⁴ went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair,¹⁵ while the mule he had been riding kept going.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace¹⁶ in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement.¹⁷ Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them.¹⁸ They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

2 Samuel 20:22

20:22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab¹⁹ blew the trumpet, and his men²⁰ dispersed from the city, each going to his own home.²¹ Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he²² went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan²³ from the leaders²⁴ of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken²⁵ them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines²⁶ publicly exposed their corpses²⁷ after²⁸ they²⁹ had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

2 Samuel 24:13

24:13 Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven³⁰ 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 decide³¹ what I should tell the one who sent me.”

¹tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”

²tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

³tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Heb “honored.”

⁵tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

⁶tn Heb “a nation, one.”

⁷tn Heb “whose God” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸tn The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.

⁹tn Heb “redeem.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.”

¹¹tn Heb “from Egypt, nations and their gods.” The LXX has “nations and tents,” which reflects a mistaken metathesis of letters in אֶלֹהָיו (e’lohav, “its gods”) and אֹהָלָיו (’ohalav, “its tents”).

¹²tc The LXX (with the exception of the recensions of Origen and Lucian) repeats the description as follows: “Just as a female bear bereft of cubs in a field.”

¹³tn Heb “the.”

¹⁴tn Heb “the donkey.”

¹⁵tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”

¹⁶tn Heb “house.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

¹⁸tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”

¹⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁰tn Heb “they”; the referent (Joab’s men) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²¹tn Heb “his tents.”

²²tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

²³tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

²⁴tn Heb “lords.”

²⁵tn Heb “stolen.”

²⁶tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

²⁷tn Heb “had hung them.”

²⁸tn Heb “in the day.”

²⁹tn Heb “Philistines.”

³⁰tc The LXX has here “three” rather than “seven,” and is followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT. See 1 Chr 21:12.

³¹tn Heb “now know and see.”