2 Samuel 3:24
3:24 So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Abner 1 has come to you! Why would you send him away? Now he’s gone on his way! 2
2 Samuel 7:7
7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say 3 to any of the leaders 4 whom I appointed to care for 5 my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’
2 Samuel 7:27
7:27 for you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have told 6 your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ 7 That is why your servant has had the courage 8 to pray this prayer to you.
2 Samuel 11:10
11:10 So they informed David, “Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven’t you gone down to your house?”
2 Samuel 11:20
11:20 if the king becomes angry and asks you, ‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the wall?
2 Samuel 13:4
13:4 He asked Amnon, 9 “Why are you, the king’s son, 10 so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.”
2 Samuel 14:13
14:13 The woman said, “Why have you devised something like this against God’s people? When the king speaks in this fashion, he makes himself guilty, for the king has not brought back the one he has banished.
2 Samuel 15:19
15:19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you come with us? Go back and stay with the new 11 king, for you are a foreigner and an exile from your own country. 12
2 Samuel 16:10
16:10 But the king said, “What do we have in common, 13 you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David!’, who can say to him, ‘Why have you done this?’”
2 Samuel 20:19
20:19 I represent the peaceful and the faithful in Israel. You are attempting to destroy an important city 14 in Israel. Why should you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”
2 Samuel 24:3
24:3 Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”
2 Samuel 24:21
24:21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To buy from you the threshing floor so I can build an altar for the Lord, so that the plague may be removed from the people.”
1 tn Heb “Look, Abner.”
2 tc The LXX adds “in peace.”
3 tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.
4 tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”
5 tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).
6 tn Heb “have uncovered the ear of.”
7 tn Heb “a house.” This maintains the wordplay from v. 11 (see the note on the word “house” there) and is continued in v. 29.
8 tn Heb “has found his heart.”
9 tn Heb “and he said to him.”
10 tn An more idiomatic translation might be “Why are you of all people…?”
11 tn The word “new” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation to make it clear that David refers to Absalom, not himself.
12 tn Heb “place.”
13 tn Heb “What to me and to you?”
14 tn Heb “a city and a mother.” The expression is a hendiadys, meaning that this city was an important one in Israel and had smaller cities dependent on it.