2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house,¹ Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him.² She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished³ himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool⁴ might do!”

2 Samuel 11:13

11:13 Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

2 Samuel 12:4

12:4 “When a traveler arrived at the rich man’s home,⁵ he did not want to use one of his own sheep or cattle to feed⁶ the traveler who had come to visit him.⁷ Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and cooked⁸ it for the man who had come to visit him.”

2 Samuel 12:9

12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my⁹ sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own!¹⁰ You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 12:11

12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you¹¹ from inside your own household!¹² Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion.¹³ He will have sexual relations with¹⁴ your wives in broad daylight!¹⁵

2 Samuel 19:8

19:8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they¹⁶ all came before him.

David Goes Back to Jerusalem

But the Israelite soldiers¹⁷ had all fled to their own homes.¹⁸

2 Samuel 19:28

19:28 After all, there was no one in the entire house of my grandfather¹⁹ who did not deserve death from my lord the king. But instead you allowed me to eat at your own table!²⁰ What further claim do I have to ask²¹ the king for anything?”

2 Samuel 19:37

19:37 Let me²² return so that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But look, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever seems appropriate to you.”

2 Samuel 19:42

19:42 All the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative! Why are you so upset about this? Have we eaten at the king’s expense?²³ Or have we misappropriated anything for our own use?”

2 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa²⁴ stopped, the man²⁵ pulled him²⁶ away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

2 Samuel 20:22

20:22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab²⁷ blew the trumpet, and his men²⁸ dispersed from the city, each going to his own home.²⁹ Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

¹tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

²tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³tn Heb “honored.”

⁴tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

⁵tn Heb “came to the rich man.” In the translation “arrived at the rich man’s home” has been used for stylistic reasons.

⁶tn Heb “and he refused to take from his flock and from his herd to prepare [a meal] for.”

⁷tn Heb “who had come to him” (also a second time later in this verse). The word “visit” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.

⁸tn Heb “and prepared.”

⁹tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”

¹⁰tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.

¹¹tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

¹²tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

¹³tn Or “friend.”

¹⁴tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

¹⁵tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

¹⁶tn Heb “all the people.”

¹⁷tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” (see 18:16-17).

¹⁸tn Heb “had fled, each to his tent.”

¹⁹tn Heb “father.”

²⁰tn Heb “and you placed your servant among those who eat at your table.”

²¹tn Heb “to cry out to.”

²²tn Heb “your servant.”

²³tn Heb “from the king.”

²⁴tn Heb “him”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man who spoke up in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁶tn Heb “Amasa.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.

²⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁸tn Heb “they”; the referent (Joab’s men) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁹tn Heb “his tents.”