2 Samuel 7:7-8

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say ¹  to any of the leaders ²  whom I appointed to care for ³  my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

7:8 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd ⁴  to make you leader of my people Israel.

2 Samuel 13:28

13:28 Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk ⁵  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!” ⁶ 

2 Samuel 16:10

16:10 But the king said, “What do we have in common, ⁷  you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David!’, who can say to him, ‘Why have you done this?’”

2 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? ⁸  God will punish me severely, ⁹  if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

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¹ tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.

² tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”

³ tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).

⁴ tn Heb “and from after the sheep.”

⁵ tn Heb “when good is the heart of Amnon with wine.”

⁶ tn Heb “and become sons of valor.”

⁷ tn Heb “What to me and to you?”

⁸ tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”

⁹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”