2 Samuel 2:23
2:23 But Asahel 1 refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his 2 spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel 3 collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner. 4 Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect. 5
2 Samuel 12:11
12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you 6 from inside your own household! 7 Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. 8 He will have sexual relations with 9 your wives in broad daylight! 10
2 Samuel 14:17
14:17 So your servant said, ‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the Lord your God be with you!’”
2 Samuel 14:19
14:19 The king said, “Did Joab put you up to all of this?” 11 The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, there is no deviation to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has said. For your servant Joab gave me instructions. He has put all these words in your servant’s mouth.
2 Samuel 19:6-7
19:6 You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now 12 that if 13 Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, 14 it would be all right with you.
19:7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to 15 your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “the.” The article functions here as a possessive pronoun.
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “and they stand.”
6 tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”
7 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”
8 tn Or “friend.”
9 tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”
10 tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”
11 tn Heb “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”
12 tn Heb “today.”
13 tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSama, and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוּ (lu, “if”) rather than MT לֹא (lo’, “not”).
14 tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack “today.”
15 tn Heb “and speak to the heart of.”