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 15:20
Context15:20 It seems like you arrived just yesterday. Today should I make you wander around by going with us? I go where I must go. But as for you, go back and take your men 6 with you. May genuine loyal love 7 protect 8 you!”
2 Samuel 15:25
Context15:25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.
2 Samuel 16:11
Context16:11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son, my very own flesh and blood, 9 is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the Lord has spoken to him.
2 Samuel 20:6
Context20:6 Then David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bicri will cause greater disaster for us than Absalom did! Take your lord’s servants and pursue him. Otherwise he will secure 10 fortified cities for himself and get away from us.”
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 Heb “brothers,” but see v. 22.
7 tn Heb “loyal love and truth.” The expression is a hendiadys.
8 tn Heb “be with.”
9 tn Heb “who came out from my entrails.” David’s point is that is his own son, his child whom he himself had fathered, was now wanting to kill him.
10 tn Heb “find.” The perfect verbal form is unexpected with the preceding word “otherwise.” We should probably read instead the imperfect. Although it is possible to understand the perfect here as indicating that the feared result is thought of as already having taken place (cf. BDB 814 s.v. פֶּן 2), it is more likely that the perfect is simply the result of scribal error. In this context the imperfect would be more consistent with the following verb וְהִצִּיל (vÿhitsil, “and he will get away”).
