Discovery Box2 Samuel 1:4 
Context1:4 David inquired, “How were things going? 1 Tell me!” He replied, “The people fled from the battle and many of them 2 fell dead. 3 Even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead!”
2 Samuel 2:5
Context2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness 4 to your lord Saul by burying him.
2 Samuel 2:26
Context2:26 Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”
2 Samuel 3:18
Context3:18 Act now! For the Lord has said to David, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save 5 my people Israel from 6 the Philistines and from all their enemies.’”
2 Samuel 3:35
Context3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely 7 if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”
2 Samuel 5:2
Context5:2 In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. 8 The Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”
2 Samuel 6:19
Context6:19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, 9 both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, 10 and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home. 11
2 Samuel 6:21
Context6:21 David replied to Michal, “It was before the Lord! I was celebrating before the Lord, who chose me over your father and his entire family 12 and appointed me as leader over the Lord’s people Israel.
2 Samuel 7:7-8
Context7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say 13 to any of the leaders 14 whom I appointed to care for 15 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 16 to make you leader of my people Israel.
2 Samuel 7:10-11
Context7:10 I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle 17 them there; they will live there and not be disturbed 18 any more. Violent men 19 will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginning 7:11 and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. Instead, I will give you relief 20 from all your enemies. The Lord declares 21 to you that he himself 22 will build a dynastic house 23 for you.
2 Samuel 14:13
Context14:13 The woman said, “Why have you devised something like this against God’s people? When the king speaks in this fashion, he makes himself guilty, for the king has not brought back the one he has banished.
2 Samuel 15:12
Context15:12 While he was offering sacrifices, Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s adviser, 24 to come from his city, Giloh. 25 The conspiracy was gaining momentum, and the people were starting to side with Absalom.
2 Samuel 15:24
Context15:24 Zadok and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. When they positioned the ark of God, Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving 26 the city.
2 Samuel 16:6
Context16:6 He threw stones at David and all of King David’s servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.
2 Samuel 17:22
Context17:22 So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. 27 By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.
2 Samuel 19:15
Context19:15 So the king returned and came to the Jordan River. 28
Now the people of Judah 29 had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him 30 cross the Jordan.
2 Samuel 24:17
Context24:17 When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the Lord, “Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep – what have they done? Attack me and my family.” 31
2 Samuel 24:21
Context24:21 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.”
1 tn Heb “What was the word?”
2 tn Heb “from the people.”
3 tn Heb “fell and died.”
4 tn Or “loyalty.”
5 tc The present translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate in reading “I will save,” rather than the MT “he saved.” The context calls for the 1st person common singular imperfect of the verb rather than the 3rd person masculine singular perfect.
6 tn Heb “from the hand of.”
7 tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”
8 tn Heb “you were the one leading out and the one leading in Israel.”
9 tn Heb “to all the people, to all the throng of Israel.”
10 tn The Hebrew word used here אֶשְׁפָּר (’espar) is found in the OT only here and in the parallel passage found in 1 Chr 16:3. Its exact meaning is uncertain, although the context indicates that it was a food of some sort (cf. KJV “a good piece of flesh”; NRSV “a portion of meat”). The translation adopted here (“date cake”) follows the lead of the Greek translations of the LXX, Aquila, and Symmachus (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).
11 tn Heb “and all the people went, each to his house.”
12 tn Heb “all his house”; CEV “anyone else in your family.”
13 tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.
14 tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”
15 tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).
16 tn Heb “and from after the sheep.”
17 tn Heb “plant.”
18 tn Heb “shaken.”
19 tn Heb “the sons of violence.”
20 tn Or “rest.”
21 tn In the Hebrew text the verb is apparently perfect with vav consecutive, which would normally suggest a future sense (“he will declare”; so the LXX, ἀπαγγελεῖ [apangelei]). But the context seems instead to call for a present or past nuance (“he declares” or “he has declared”). The synoptic passage in 1 Chr 17:10 has וָאַגִּד (va’aggid, “and I declared”). The construction used in 2 Sam 7:11 highlights this important statement.
22 tn Heb “the
23 tn Heb “house,” but used here in a metaphorical sense, referring to a royal dynasty. Here the
24 tn Traditionally, “counselor,” but this term is more often associated with psychological counseling today, so “adviser” was used in the translation instead.
25 tn Heb “Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, the adviser of David, from his city, from Giloh, while he was sacrificing.” It is not entirely clear who (Absalom or Ahithophel) was offering the sacrifices.
26 tn Heb “crossing from.”
27 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text here or in v. 24, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
28 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
29 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Judah.”
30 tn Heb “the king.” The pronoun (“him”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.
31 tn Heb “let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.”
