Discovery Box2 Samuel 2:22 
Context2:22 So Abner spoke again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground. 1 How then could I show 2 my face in the presence of Joab your brother?”
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 2:32
Context2:32 They took Asahel’s body and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. 3 Joab and his men then traveled all that night and reached Hebron by dawn.
2 Samuel 3:12
Context3:12 Then Abner sent messengers 4 to David saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement 5 with me, and I will do whatever I can 6 to cause all Israel to turn to you.”
2 Samuel 3:19
Context3:19 Then Abner spoke privately 7 with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately 8 of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. 9
2 Samuel 3:27
Context3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him 10 in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel. 11
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 12 if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”
2 Samuel 5:20
Context5:20 So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, “The Lord has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. 13
2 Samuel 6:17
Context6:17 They brought the ark of the Lord and put it in its place 14 in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the Lord.
2 Samuel 9:9
Context9:9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s attendant, and said to him, “Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master’s grandson.
2 Samuel 10:4-5
Context10:4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, 15 and then sent them away. 10:5 Messengers 16 told David what had happened, 17 so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho 18 until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.”
2 Samuel 11:4
Context11:4 David sent some messengers to get her. 19 She came to him and he had sexual relations with her. 20 (Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) 21 Then she returned to her home.
2 Samuel 12:13
Context12:13 Then David exclaimed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord!” Nathan replied to David, “Yes, and the Lord has forgiven 22 your sin. You are not going to die.
2 Samuel 13:19
Context13:19 Then Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe she was wearing. She put her hands on her head and went on her way, wailing as she went.
2 Samuel 13:28-29
Context13:28 Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk 23 and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!” 24 13:29 So Absalom’s servants did to Amnon exactly what Absalom had instructed. Then all the king’s sons got up; each one rode away on his mule and fled.
2 Samuel 14:29
Context14:29 Then Absalom sent a message to Joab asking him to send him to the king, but Joab was not willing to come to him. So he sent a second message to him, but he still was not willing to come.
2 Samuel 15:19
Context15:19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you come with us? Go back and stay with the new 25 king, for you are a foreigner and an exile from your own country. 26
2 Samuel 17:15
Context17:15 Then Hushai reported to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Here is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the leaders 27 of Israel to do, and here is what I have advised.
2 Samuel 17:17
Context17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying in En Rogel. A female servant would go and inform them, and they would then go and inform King David. It was not advisable for them to be seen going into the city.
2 Samuel 17:19
Context17:19 His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.
2 Samuel 17:21
Context17:21 After the men had left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan 28 climbed out of the well. Then they left and informed King David. They advised David, “Get up and cross the stream 29 quickly, for Ahithophel has devised a plan to catch you.” 30
2 Samuel 18:4
Context18:4 Then the king said to them, “I will do whatever seems best to you.”
So the king stayed beside the city gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
2 Samuel 18:23
Context18:23 But he said, 31 “Whatever happens, I want to go!” So Joab 32 said to him, “Then go!” So Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Jordan plain, and he passed the Cushite.
2 Samuel 18:26
Context18:26 Then the watchman saw another man running. The watchman called out to the gatekeeper, “There is another man running by himself.” The king said, “This one also is bringing good news.”
2 Samuel 18:31
Context18:31 Then the Cushite arrived and said, 33 “May my lord the king now receive the good news! The Lord has vindicated you today and delivered you from the hand of all who have rebelled against you!” 34
2 Samuel 19:14
Context19:14 He 35 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 24:25
Context24:25 Then David built an altar for the Lord there and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. And the Lord accepted prayers for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.
1 tn Heb “Why should I strike you to the ground?”
2 tn Heb “lift.”
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
4 tn The Hebrew text adds here, “on his behalf.”
5 tn Heb “cut a covenant.” So also in vv. 13, 21.
6 tn Heb “and behold, my hand is with you.”
7 tn Heb “into the ears of.”
8 tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”
9 tn Heb “all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin.”
10 tn Heb “and he struck him down there [in] the stomach.”
11 tn Heb “and he [i.e., Abner] died on account of the blood of Asahel his [i.e., Joab’s] brother.”
12 tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”
13 tn The name means “Lord of the outbursts.”
14 tc The Syriac Peshitta lacks “in its place.”
15 tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto their buttocks.”
16 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn The words “what had happened” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
18 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
19 tn Heb “and David sent messengers and he took her.”
20 tn Heb “he lay with her” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “he made love to her”; NIV, CEV, NLT “he slept with her.”
21 tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause further heightens the tension by letting the reader know that Bathsheba, having just completed her menstrual cycle, is ripe for conception. See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 286. Since she just had her period, it will also be obvious to those close to the scene that Uriah, who has been away fighting, cannot be the father of the child.
22 tn Heb “removed.”
23 tn Heb “when good is the heart of Amnon with wine.”
24 tn Heb “and become sons of valor.”
25 tn The word “new” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation to make it clear that David refers to Absalom, not himself.
26 tn Heb “place.”
27 tn Heb “elders.”
28 tn Heb “they”; the referents (Ahimaaz and Jonathan) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
29 tn Heb “the water.”
30 tn Heb “for thus Ahithophel has devised against you.” The expression “thus” is narrative shorthand, referring to the plan outlined by Ahithophel (see vv. 1-3). The men would surely have outlined the plan in as much detail as they had been given by the messenger.
31 tn The words “but he said” are not in the Hebrew text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
32 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
33 tn Heb “And look, the Cushite came and the Cushite said.”
34 tn Heb “for the
35 tn The referent of “he” is not entirely clear: cf. NCV “David”; TEV “David’s words”; NRSV, NLT “Amasa.”
