Discovery Box2 Samuel 1:10 
Context1:10 So I stood over him and put him to death, since I knew that he couldn’t live in such a condition. 1 Then I took the crown which was on his head and the 2 bracelet which was on his arm. I have brought them here to my lord.” 3
2 Samuel 2:23
Context2:23 But Asahel 4 refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the abdomen with the back end of his 5 spear. The spear came out his back; Asahel 6 collapsed on the spot and died there right before Abner. 7 Everyone who now comes to the place where Asahel fell dead pauses in respect. 8
2 Samuel 4:12
Context4:12 So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them 9 near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth 10 and buried it in the tomb of Abner 11 in Hebron. 12
2 Samuel 6:12
Context6:12 David was told, 13 “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.
2 Samuel 9:11
Context9:11 Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do everything that my lord the king has instructed his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth was a regular guest 14 at David’s table, 15 just as though he were one of the king’s sons.
2 Samuel 10:3
Context10:3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? 16 No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!” 17
2 Samuel 12:20
Context12:20 So David got up from the ground, bathed, put on oil, and changed his clothes. He went to the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then, when he entered his palace, he requested that food be brought to him, and he ate.
2 Samuel 14:2
Context14:2 So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman. He told her, “Pretend to be in mourning 18 and put on garments for mourning. Don’t anoint yourself with oil. Instead, act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for some time. 19
2 Samuel 14:11
Context14:11 She replied, “In that case, 20 let the king invoke the name of 21 the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head 22 will fall to the ground.”
2 Samuel 14:17
Context14:17 So your servant said, ‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the Lord your God be with you!’”
2 Samuel 15:14
Context15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, 23 “Come on! 24 Let’s escape! 25 Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring 26 disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” 27
2 Samuel 17:14
Context17:14 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the Lord had decided 28 to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:18
Context17:18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.
2 Samuel 17:20
Context17:20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men 29 searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. 30
2 Samuel 17:23
Context17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave 31 of his father.
2 Samuel 18:3
Context18:3 But the soldiers replied, 32 “You should not do this! 33 For if we should have to make a rapid retreat, they won’t be too concerned about us. 34 Even if half of us should die, they won’t be too concerned about us. But you 35 are like ten thousand of us! So it is better if you remain in the city for support.”
2 Samuel 19:7-8
Context19:7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to 36 your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”
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, they 37 all came before him.
But the Israelite soldiers 38 had all fled to their own homes. 39
2 Samuel 19:37
Context19:37 Let me 40 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
Context19:42 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? 41 Or have we misappropriated anything for our own use?”
2 Samuel 21:2
Context21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to 42 them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
2 Samuel 21:8
Context21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab 43 whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
2 Samuel 23:10
Context23:10 he stood his ground 44 and fought the Philistines until his hand grew so tired that it 45 seemed stuck to his sword. The Lord gave a great victory on that day. When the army returned to him, the only thing left to do was to plunder the corpses.
2 Samuel 23:16
Context23:16 So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate. They carried it back to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord
2 Samuel 24:24
Context24:24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it from you! I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.”
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver. 46
1 tn Heb “after his falling”; NAB “could not survive his wound”; CEV “was too badly wounded to live much longer.”
2 tc The MT lacks the definite article, but this is likely due to textual corruption. It is preferable to read the alef (א) of אֶצְעָדָה (’ets’adah) as a ה (he) giving הַצְּעָדָה (hatsÿ’adah). There is no reason to think that the soldier confiscated from Saul’s dead body only one of two or more bracelets that he was wearing (cf. NLT “one of his bracelets”).
3 sn The claims that the soldier is making here seem to contradict the story of Saul’s death as presented in 1 Sam 31:3-5. In that passage it appears that Saul took his own life, not that he was slain by a passerby who happened on the scene. Some scholars account for the discrepancy by supposing that conflicting accounts have been brought together in the MT. However, it is likely that the young man is here fabricating the account in a self-serving way so as to gain favor with David, or so he supposes. He probably had come across Saul’s corpse, stolen the crown and bracelet from the body, and now hopes to curry favor with David by handing over to him these emblems of Saul’s royalty. But in so doing the Amalekite greatly miscalculated David’s response to this alleged participation in Saul’s death. The consequence of his lies will instead be his own death.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “the.” The article functions here as a possessive pronoun.
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Asahel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “and they stand.”
9 tn The antecedent of the pronoun “them” (which is not present in the Hebrew text, but implied) is not entirely clear. Presumably it is the corpses that were hung and not merely the detached hands and feet; cf. NIV “hung the (their NRSV, NLT) bodies”; the alternative is represented by TEV “cut off their hands and feet, which they hung up.”
10 tc 4QSama mistakenly reads “Mephibosheth” here.
11 tc The LXX adds “the son of Ner” by conformity with common phraseology elsewhere.
12 tc Some
13 tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”
14 tn Heb “eating.”
15 tc Heb “my table.” But the first person reference to David is awkward here since the quotation of David’s words has already been concluded in v. 10; nor does the “my” refer to Ziba, since the latter part of v. 11 does not seem to be part of Ziba’s response to the king. The ancient versions are not unanimous in the way that they render the phrase. The LXX has “the table of David” (τῆς τραπέζης Δαυιδ, th" trapezh" Dauid); the Syriac Peshitta has “the table of the king” (patureh demalka’); the Vulgate has “your table” (mensam tuam). The present translation follows the LXX.
16 tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”
17 tn Heb “Is it not to explore the city and to spy on it and to overthrow it [that] David has sent his servants to you?”
18 tn The Hebrew Hitpael verbal form here indicates pretended rather than genuine action.
19 tn Heb “these many days.”
20 tn The words “in that case” are not in the Hebrew text, but may be inferred from the context. They are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarification.
21 tn Heb “let the king remember.”
22 tn Heb “of your son.”
23 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
24 tn Heb “Arise!”
25 tn Heb “let’s flee.”
26 tn Heb “thrust.”
27 tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
28 tn Heb “commanded.”
29 tn Heb “they”; the referents (Absalom’s men) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
30 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
31 tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”
32 tn Heb “the people said.”
33 tn Heb “march out.”
34 tn Heb “they will not place to us heart.”
35 tc The translation follows the LXX (except for the Lucianic recension), Symmachus, and Vulgate in reading אָתָּה (’atta, “you”) rather than MT עָתָּה (’atta, “now”).
36 tn Heb “and speak to the heart of.”
37 tn Heb “all the people.”
38 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” (see 18:16-17).
39 tn Heb “had fled, each to his tent.”
40 tn Heb “your servant.”
41 tn Heb “from the king.”
42 tn Heb “swore an oath to.”
43 tc The MT reads “Michal” here, but two Hebrew manuscripts read “Merab,” along with some LXX manuscripts. Cf. 1 Sam 18:19.
44 tn Heb “arose.”
45 tn Heb “his hand.”
46 tn Heb “fifty shekels of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.
