2 Samuel 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ¹  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 6:3

6:3 They loaded the ark of God on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart.

2 Samuel 7:2

7:2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”

2 Samuel 7:18

David Offers a Prayer to God

7:18 King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, ²  that you should have brought me to this point?

2 Samuel 7:27

7:27 for you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have told ³  your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ ⁴  That is why your servant has had the courage ⁵  to pray this prayer to you.

2 Samuel 12:7

12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose ⁶  you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 14:13-14

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. 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. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 14:16

14:16 Yes! ⁸  The king may ⁹  listen and deliver his female servant ¹⁰  from the hand of the man who seeks to remove ¹¹  both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’ ¹² 

2 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Your servant Joab did this so as to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like that of the angel of God, and knows everything that is happening in the land.” ¹³ 

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ¹⁴  God will punish me severely, ¹⁵  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

2 Samuel 23:1

David’s Final Words

23:1 These are the final words of David:

“The oracle of David son of Jesse,

the oracle of the man raised up as

the ruler chosen by the God of Jacob, ¹⁶ 

Israel’s beloved ¹⁷  singer of songs:

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, ¹⁸ 

for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,

arranged in all its particulars and secured.

He always delivers me,

and brings all I desire to fruition. ¹⁹ 

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?”

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¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

² tn Heb “house.”

³ tn Heb “have uncovered the ear of.”

⁴ 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.

⁵ tn Heb “has found his heart.”

⁶ tn Heb “anointed.”

⁷ tn Heb “he devises plans for the one banished from him not to be banished.”

⁸ tn Or “for.”

⁹ tn Or “will.” The imperfect verbal form can have either an indicative or modal nuance. The use of “perhaps” in v. 15b suggests the latter here.

¹⁰ tn Heb “in order to deliver his maid.”

¹¹ tn Heb “destroy.”

¹² tn Heb “from the inheritance of God.” The expression refers to the property that was granted to her family line in the division of the land authorized by God.

¹³ tn Heb “to know all that is in the land.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “the anointed one of the God of Jacob.”

¹⁷ tn Or “pleasant.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

¹⁹ tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”