2 Samuel 2:5

2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness 1  to your lord Saul by burying him.

2 Samuel 7:29

7:29 Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty 2  so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!” 3 

2 Samuel 13:25

13:25 But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son. We shouldn’t all go. We shouldn’t burden you in that way.” Though Absalom 4  pressed 5  him, the king 6  was not willing to go. Instead, David 7  blessed him.

1 tn Or “loyalty.”

2 tn Heb “house” (again later in this verse). See the note on “dynastic house” in v. 27.

3 tn Or “permanently”; cf. NLT “it is an eternal blessing.”

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

5 tc Here and in v. 27 the translation follows 4QSama ויצפר (vayyitspar, “and he pressed”) rather than the MT וַיִּפְרָץ (vayyiprats, “and he broke through”). This emended reading seems also to underlie the translations of the LXX (καὶ ἐβιάσατο, kai ebiasato), the Syriac Peshitta (we’alseh), and Vulgate (cogeret eum).

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

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