2 Samuel 2:22
2:22 So Abner spoke again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground. 1 How then could I show 2 my face in the presence of Joab your brother?”
2 Samuel 7:10
7:10 I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle 3 them there; they will live there and not be disturbed 4 any more. Violent men 5 will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginning
2 Samuel 10:5
10:5 Messengers 6 told David what had happened, 7 so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho 8 until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.”
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. 9
1 tn Heb “Why should I strike you to the ground?”
2 tn Heb “lift.”
3 tn Heb “plant.”
4 tn Heb “shaken.”
5 tn Heb “the sons of violence.”
6 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn The words “what had happened” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
8 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
9 tn Heb “he devises plans for the one banished from him not to be banished.”