2 Samuel 5:17

Conflict with the Philistines

5:17 When the Philistines heard that David had been designated¹ king over Israel, they all² went up to search for David. When David heard about it, he went down to the fortress.

2 Samuel 5:24

5:24 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, act decisively. For at that moment the Lord is going before you to strike down the army³ of the Philistines.”

2 Samuel 10:18

10:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers.⁴ He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

2 Samuel 13:8

13:8 So Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, who was lying down. She took the dough, kneaded it, made some cakes while he watched,⁵ and baked them.⁶

2 Samuel 13:28

13:28 Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk⁷ and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!”⁸

2 Samuel 14:33

14:33 So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king⁹ summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom¹⁰ bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him.¹¹

2 Samuel 17:13

17:13 If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”

2 Samuel 19:18

19:18 They crossed at the ford in order to help the king’s household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate.

Now after he had crossed the Jordan, Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king.

2 Samuel 19:20

19:20 For I, your servant,¹² know that I sinned, and I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”

2 Samuel 19:24

19:24 Now Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson,¹³ came down to meet the king. From the day the king had left until the day he safely¹⁴ returned, Mephibosheth¹⁵ had not cared for his feet¹⁶ nor trimmed¹⁷ his mustache nor washed his clothes.

2 Samuel 23:13

23:13 At the time of¹⁸ the harvest three¹⁹ of the thirty leaders went down to²⁰ David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim.

¹tn Heb “anointed.”

²tn Heb “all the Philistines.”

³tn Heb “camp” (so NAB).

⁴tn Heb “horsemen” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT) but the Lucianic recension of the LXX reads “foot soldiers,” as does the parallel text in 1 Chr 19:18. Cf. NAB, NIV.

⁵tn Heb “in his sight.”

⁶tn Heb “the cakes.”

⁷tn Heb “when good is the heart of Amnon with wine.”

⁸tn Heb “and become sons of valor.”

⁹tn Heb “he.” Joab, acting on behalf of the king, may be the implied subject.

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

¹¹tn Heb “Absalom.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.

¹²tn The Hebrew text has simply “your servant.”

¹³tn Heb “son.”

¹⁴tn Heb “in peace.” So also in v. 31.

¹⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (Mephibosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶tn Heb “done his feet.”

¹⁷tn Heb “done.”

¹⁸tn The meaning of Hebrew אֶל־קָצִיר (’el qatsir) seems here to be “at the time of harvest,” although this is an unusual use of the phrase. As S. R. Driver points out, this preposition does not normally have the temporal sense of “in” or “during” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 366).

¹⁹tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁלֹשָׁה (shÿloshah, “three”) rather than the Kethib of the MT שְׁלֹשִׁים (shÿloshim, “thirty”). “Thirty” is due to dittography of the following word and makes no sense in the context.

²⁰tn Heb “went down…and approached.”