2 Samuel 2:21

2:21 Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right or to your left. Capture one of the soldiers ¹  and take his equipment for yourself!” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

2 Samuel 13:20

13:20 Her brother Absalom said to her, “Was Amnon your brother with you? Now be quiet, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take it so seriously!” ²  Tamar, devastated, lived in the house of her brother Absalom.

2 Samuel 14:14

14:14 Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored. ³ 

2 Samuel 17:13

17:13 If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”

2 Samuel 24:22

24:22 Araunah told David, “My lord the king may take whatever he wishes ⁴  and offer it. Look! Here are oxen for burnt offerings, and threshing sledges ⁵  and harnesses ⁶  for wood.

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¹ tn Heb “young men.” So also elsewhere.

² tn Heb “Don’t set your heart to this thing!”

³ tn Heb “he devises plans for the one banished from him not to be banished.”

⁴ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

⁵ sn Threshing sledges were heavy boards used in ancient times for loosening grain from husks. On the bottom sides of these boards sharp stones were embedded, and the boards were then dragged across the grain on a threshing floor by an ox or donkey.

⁶ tn Heb “the equipment of the oxen.”