2 Samuel 2:23

2:23 But Asahel¹ refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his² spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel³ 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 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house,⁶ Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him.⁷ She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished⁸ himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool⁹ might do!”

2 Samuel 7:23

7:23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation¹⁰ on the earth? Their God¹¹ went¹² to claim¹³ a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land,¹⁴ before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.¹⁵

2 Samuel 12:11

12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you¹⁶ from inside your own household!¹⁷ Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion.¹⁸ He will have sexual relations with¹⁹ your wives in broad daylight!²⁰

2 Samuel 18:28

18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!”²¹ He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated²² the men who opposed²³ my lord the king!”

2 Samuel 19:8

19:8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they²⁴ all came before him.

David Goes Back to Jerusalem

But the Israelite soldiers²⁵ had all fled to their own homes.²⁶

2 Samuel 21:9

21:9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them²⁷ died²⁸ together; they were put to death during harvest time – during the first days of the beginning²⁹ of the barley harvest.

¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn Heb “the.” The article functions here as a possessive pronoun.

³tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “and they stand.”

⁶tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

⁷tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸tn Heb “honored.”

⁹tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

¹⁰tn Heb “a nation, one.”

¹¹tn 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.

¹²tn The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.

¹³tn Heb “redeem.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.”

¹⁵tn 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”).

¹⁶tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

¹⁷tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

¹⁸tn Or “friend.”

¹⁹tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

²⁰tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

²¹tn Heb “Peace.”

²²tn Heb “delivered over.”

²³tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”

²⁴tn Heb “all the people.”

²⁵tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” (see 18:16-17).

²⁶tn Heb “had fled, each to his tent.”

²⁷tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shÿva’tam, “the seven of them”) rather than MT שִׁבַעְתִּים (shiva’tim, “seventy”).

²⁸tn Heb “fell.”

²⁹tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת (bithkhillat, “in the beginning”) rather than MT תְחִלַּת (tÿkhillat, “beginning of”).