2 Samuel 4:11

4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept ¹  in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove ²  you from the earth?”

2 Samuel 5:19

5:19 So David asked the Lord, “Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The Lord said to David, “March up, for I will indeed ³  hand the Philistines over to you.”

2 Samuel 5:23

5:23 So David asked the Lord what he should do. ⁴  This time ⁵  the Lord ⁶  said to him, “Don’t march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees. ⁷ 

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, ⁸  that you should have brought me to this point?

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 ⁹  king, for you are a foreigner and an exile from your own country. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 19:22

19:22 But David said, “What do we have in common, ¹¹  you sons of Zeruiah? You are like my enemy today! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don’t you realize that today I am king over Israel?”

2 Samuel 20:19

20:19 I represent the peaceful and the faithful in Israel. You are attempting to destroy an important city ¹²  in Israel. Why should you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”

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¹ tn Heb “on his bed.”

² tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”

³ tn The infinitive absolute lends emphasis to the following verb.

⁴ tn The words “what to do” are not in the Hebrew text.

⁵ tn The words “this time” are not in the Hebrew text.

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

⁷ tn Some translate as “balsam trees” (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, NJB, NLT); cf. KJV, NKJV, ASV “mulberry trees”; NAB “mastic trees”; NEB, REB “aspens.” The exact identification of the type of tree or plant is uncertain.

⁸ tn Heb “house.”

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ tn Heb “place.”

¹¹ tn Heb “what to me and to you.”

¹² 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.