Discovery Box2 Samuel 12:11 
Context12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you 1 from inside your own household! 2 Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. 3 He will have sexual relations with 4 your wives in broad daylight! 5
2 Samuel 13:5-6
Context13:5 Jonadab replied to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. 6 When your father comes in to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.’”
13:6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came in to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can make a couple of cakes in my sight. Then I will eat from her hand.”
2 Samuel 16:8
Context16:8 The Lord has punished you for 7 all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”
2 Samuel 20:10
Context20:10 Amasa did not protect himself from the knife in Joab’s other hand, and Joab 8 stabbed him in the abdomen, causing Amasa’s 9 intestines to spill out on the ground. There was no need to stab him again; the first blow was fatal. 10 Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bicri.
2 Samuel 23:10
Context23:10 he stood his ground 11 and fought the Philistines until his hand grew so tired that it 12 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 24:16
Context24:16 When the angel 13 extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. 14 He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” 15 (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)
1 tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”
2 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”
3 tn Or “friend.”
4 tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”
5 tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”
6 tn This verb is used in the Hitpael stem only in this chapter of the Hebrew Bible. With the exception of v. 2 it describes not a real sickness but one pretended in order to entrap Tamar. The Hitpael sometimes, as here, describes the subject making oneself appear to be of a certain character. On this use of the stem, see GKC 149-50 §54.e.
7 tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “and he did not repeat concerning him, and he died.”
11 tn Heb “arose.”
12 tn Heb “his hand.”
13 tn Heb “messenger.”
14 tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”
15 tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”
