2 Samuel 5:20

5:20 So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, “The Lord has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. ¹ 

2 Samuel 10:4

10:4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, ²  and then sent them away.

2 Samuel 11:10

11:10 So they informed David, “Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven’t you gone down to your house?”

2 Samuel 13:4

13:4 He asked Amnon, ³  “Why are you, the king’s son, ⁴  so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.”

2 Samuel 18:23

18:23 But he said, ⁵  “Whatever happens, I want to go!” So Joab ⁶  said to him, “Then go!” So Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Jordan plain, and he passed the Cushite.

2 Samuel 24:21

24:21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To buy from you the threshing floor so I can build an altar for the Lord, so that the plague may be removed from the people.”

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¹ tn The name means “Lord of the outbursts.”

² tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto their buttocks.”

³ tn Heb “and he said to him.”

⁴ tn An more idiomatic translation might be “Why are you of all people…?”

⁵ tn The words “but he said” are not in the Hebrew text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

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