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 3:12
Context3:12 Then Abner sent messengers 3 to David saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement 4 with me, and I will do whatever I can 5 to cause all Israel to turn to you.”
2 Samuel 5:23
Context5:23 So David asked the Lord what he should do. 6 This time 7 the Lord 8 said to him, “Don’t march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees. 9
2 Samuel 13:2
Context13:2 But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick 10 over his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and to Amnon it seemed out of the question to do anything to her.
2 Samuel 16:10
Context16:10 But the king said, “What do we have in common, 11 you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David!’, who can say to him, ‘Why have you done this?’”
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 12 of Israel to do, and here is what I have advised.
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 19:18
Context19:18 They crossed at the ford in order to help the king’s household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate.
Now after he had crossed the Jordan, Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king.
2 Samuel 19:22
Context19:22 But David said, “What do we have in common, 13 you sons of Zeruiah? You are like my enemy today! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don’t you realize that today I am king over Israel?”
2 Samuel 23:17
Context23:17 and said, “O Lord, I will not do this! 14 It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” 15 So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors. 16
2 Samuel 24:3
Context24:3 Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”
1 tn Heb “Why should I strike you to the ground?”
2 tn Heb “lift.”
3 tn The Hebrew text adds here, “on his behalf.”
4 tn Heb “cut a covenant.” So also in vv. 13, 21.
5 tn Heb “and behold, my hand is with you.”
6 tn The words “what to do” are not in the Hebrew text.
7 tn The words “this time” are not in the Hebrew text.
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
9 tn Some translate as “balsam trees” (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, NJB, NLT); cf. KJV, NKJV, ASV “mulberry trees”; NAB “mastic trees”; NEB, REB “aspens.” The exact identification of the type of tree or plant is uncertain.
10 tn Heb “and there was distress to Amnon so that he made himself sick.”
11 tn Heb “What to me and to you?”
12 tn Heb “elders.”
13 tn Heb “what to me and to you.”
14 tn Heb “Far be it to me, O
15 tn Heb “[Is it not] the blood of the men who were going with their lives?”
16 tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”
