2 Samuel 3:5

3:5 His sixth son was Ithream, born to David’s wife Eglah. These sons ¹  were all born to David in Hebron.

2 Samuel 3:20

3:20 When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him.

2 Samuel 3:26

3:26 Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah. (But David was not aware of it.)

2 Samuel 3:31

3:31 David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!” Now King David followed ²  behind the funeral bier.

2 Samuel 5:11

5:11 King Hiram of Tyre ³  sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace ⁴  for David.

2 Samuel 5:13

5:13 David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.

2 Samuel 8:4

8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers ⁵  and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 8:14

8:14 He placed garrisons throughout Edom, ⁷  and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. The Lord protected David wherever he campaigned.

2 Samuel 10:17

10:17 When David was informed, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan River, ⁸  and came to Helam. The Arameans deployed their forces against David and fought with him.

2 Samuel 12:1

Nathan the Prophet Confronts David

12:1 So the Lord sent Nathan ⁹  to David. When he came to David, ¹⁰  Nathan ¹¹  said, ¹²  “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 13:1

The Rape of Tamar

13:1 Now David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. In the course of time David’s son Amnon fell madly in love with her. ¹³ 

2 Samuel 15:31

15:31 Now David ¹⁴  had been told, “Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, ¹⁵  “Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!”

2 Samuel 21:15

Israel Engages in Various Battles with the Philistines

21:15 Another battle was fought between the Philistines and Israel. So David went down with his soldiers ¹⁶  and fought the Philistines. David became exhausted.

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¹ tn The Hebrew text does not have “sons.”

² tn Heb “was walking.”

³ map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

⁴ tn Heb “a house.”

⁵ tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.

⁶ tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”

⁷ tc The MT is repetitious here: “He placed in Edom garrisons; in all Edom he placed garrisons.” The Vulgate lacks “in all Edom”; most of the Greek tradition (with the exception of the Lucianic recension and the recension of Origen) and the Syriac Peshitta lack “he placed garrisons.” The MT reading appears here to be the result of a conflation of variant readings.

⁸ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tc A few medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta add “the prophet.” The words are included in a few modern English version (e.g., TEV, CEV, NLT).

¹⁰ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn The Hebrew text repeats “to him.”

¹³ tn Heb “Amnon the son of David loved her.” The following verse indicates the extreme nature of his infatuation, so the translation uses “madly in love” here.

sn Amnon was the half-brother of Tamar; Absalom was her full blood-brother.

¹⁴ tc The translation follows 4QSam^a, part of the Greek tradition, the Syriac Peshitta, Targum, and Vulgate uldavid in reading “and to David,” rather than MT וְדָוִד (vÿdavid, “and David”). As Driver points out, the Hebrew verb הִגִּיד (higgid, “he related”) never uses the accusative for the person to whom something is told (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 316).

¹⁵ tn Heb “said.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “his servants.”