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 7:9

7:9 I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated ³  all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 23:4

23:4 is like the light of morning when the sun comes up,

a morning in which there are no clouds.

He is like the brightness after rain

that produces grass from the earth.

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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 Heb “cut off.”

⁴ tn Heb “and I will make for you a great name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.”