Discovery Box2 Samuel 1:6 
Context1:6 The young man who was telling him this 1 said, “I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.
2 Samuel 4:11
Context4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept 2 in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove 3 you from the earth?”
2 Samuel 12:7
Context12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose 4 you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.
2 Samuel 14:16
Context14:16 Yes! 5 The king may 6 listen and deliver his female servant 7 from the hand of the man who seeks to remove 8 both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’ 9
2 Samuel 14:25
Context14:25 Now in all Israel everyone acknowledged that there was no man as handsome as Absalom. 10 From the sole of his feet to the top of his head he was perfect in appearance. 11
2 Samuel 17:3
Context17:3 and will bring the entire army back to you. In exchange for the life of the man you are seeking, you will get back everyone. 12 The entire army will return unharmed.” 13
2 Samuel 18:5
Context18:5 The king gave this order to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake deal gently with the young man Absalom.” Now the entire army was listening when the king gave all the leaders this order concerning Absalom.
2 Samuel 18:24
Context18:24 Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, 14 and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.
2 Samuel 18:27
Context18:27 The watchman said, “It appears to me that the first runner is Ahimaaz 15 son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and he comes with good news.”
2 Samuel 19:14
Context19:14 He 16 won over the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man. Then they sent word to the king saying, “Return, you and all your servants as well.”
2 Samuel 19:32
Context19:32 But Barzillai was very old – eighty years old, in fact – and he had taken care of the king when he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich 17 man.
2 Samuel 21:5
Context21:5 They replied to the king, “As for this man who exterminated us and who schemed against us so that we were destroyed and left without status throughout all the borders of Israel –
2 Samuel 21:20
Context21:20 Yet another battle occurred in Gath. On that occasion there was a large man 18 who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all! He too was a descendant of Rapha.
2 Samuel 23:1
Context23:1 These are the final words of David:
“The oracle of David son of Jesse,
the oracle of the man raised up as
the ruler chosen by the God of Jacob, 19
Israel’s beloved 20 singer of songs:
1 tc The Syriac Peshitta and one
2 tn Heb “on his bed.”
3 tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”
4 tn Heb “anointed.”
5 tn Or “for.”
6 tn Or “will.” The imperfect verbal form can have either an indicative or modal nuance. The use of “perhaps” in v. 15b suggests the latter here.
7 tn Heb “in order to deliver his maid.”
8 tn Heb “destroy.”
9 tn Heb “from the inheritance of God.” The expression refers to the property that was granted to her family line in the division of the land authorized by God.
10 tn Heb “Like Absalom there was not a handsome man in all Israel to boast exceedingly.”
11 tn Heb “there was not in him a blemish.”
12 tc Heb “like the returning of all, the man whom you are seeking.” The LXX reads differently: “And I will return all the people to you the way a bride returns to her husband, except for the life of the one man whom you are seeking.” The other early versions also struggled with this verse. Modern translations are divided as well: the NAB, NRSV, REB, and NLT follow the LXX, while the NASB and NIV follow the Hebrew text.
13 tn Heb “all of the people will be safe.”
14 tn Heb “the two gates.”
15 tn Heb “I am seeing the running of the first one like the running of Ahimaaz.”
16 tn The referent of “he” is not entirely clear: cf. NCV “David”; TEV “David’s words”; NRSV, NLT “Amasa.”
17 tn Heb “great.”
18 tn Heb “a man of stature.”
19 tn Heb “the anointed one of the God of Jacob.”
20 tn Or “pleasant.”
