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 3:13
Context3:13 So David said, “Good! I will make an agreement with you. I ask only one thing from you. You will not see my face unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to visit me.” 3
2 Samuel 5:2
Context5:2 In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. 4 The Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”
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. 5
2 Samuel 7:7
Context7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say 6 to any of the leaders 7 whom I appointed to care for 8 my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’
2 Samuel 7:10-11
Context7:10 I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle 9 them there; they will live there and not be disturbed 10 any more. Violent men 11 will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginning 7:11 and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. Instead, I will give you relief 12 from all your enemies. The Lord declares 13 to you that he himself 14 will build a dynastic house 15 for you.
2 Samuel 7:14
Context7:14 I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.
2 Samuel 7:18
Context7:18 King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, 16 that you should have brought me to this point?
2 Samuel 13:4
Context13:4 He asked Amnon, 17 “Why are you, the king’s son, 18 so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.”
2 Samuel 13:13
Context13:13 How could I ever be rid of my humiliation? And you would be considered one of the fools 19 in Israel! Just 20 speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
2 Samuel 13:20
Context13:20 Her brother Absalom said to her, “Was Amnon your brother with you? Now be quiet, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take it so seriously!” 21 Tamar, devastated, lived in the house of her brother Absalom.
2 Samuel 13:25
Context13:25 But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son. We shouldn’t all go. We shouldn’t burden you in that way.” Though Absalom 22 pressed 23 him, the king 24 was not willing to go. Instead, David 25 blessed him.
2 Samuel 13:33
Context13:33 Now don’t let my lord the king be concerned about the report that has come saying, ‘All the king’s sons are dead.’ It is only Amnon who is dead.”
2 Samuel 14:16
Context14:16 Yes! 26 The king may 27 listen and deliver his female servant 28 from the hand of the man who seeks to remove 29 both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’ 30
2 Samuel 14:20
Context14:20 Your servant Joab did this so as to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like that of the angel of God, and knows everything that is happening in the land.” 31
2 Samuel 14:24
Context14:24 But the king said, “Let him go over 32 to his own house. He may not see my face.” So Absalom went over 33 to his own house; he did not see the king’s face.
2 Samuel 16:3-4
Context16:3 The king asked, “Where is your master’s grandson?” 34 Ziba replied to the king, “He remains in Jerusalem, 35 for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give back to me my grandfather’s 36 kingdom.’” 16:4 The king said to Ziba, “Everything that was Mephibosheth’s now belongs to you.” Ziba replied, “I bow before you. May I find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”
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 18:31-32
Context18:31 Then the Cushite arrived and said, 37 “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!” 38 18:32 The king asked the Cushite, “How is the young man Absalom?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who have plotted against you 39 be like that young man!”
2 Samuel 19:20
Context19:20 For I, your servant, 40 know that I sinned, and I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
2 Samuel 19:22
Context19:22 But David said, “What do we have in common, 41 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 20:9
Context20:9 Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my brother?” With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa’s beard as if to greet him with a kiss.
2 Samuel 23:5
Context23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, 42
for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,
arranged in all its particulars and secured.
He always delivers me,
and brings all I desire to fruition. 43
2 Samuel 24:17
Context24:17 When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the Lord, “Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep – what have they done? Attack me and my family.” 44
2 Samuel 24:21-22
Context24:21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To buy from you the threshing floor so I can build an altar for the Lord, so that the plague may be removed from the people.” 24:22 Araunah told David, “My lord the king may take whatever he wishes 45 and offer it. Look! Here are oxen for burnt offerings, and threshing sledges 46 and harnesses 47 for wood.
1 tn Heb “Why should I strike you to the ground?”
2 tn Heb “lift.”
3 tn The words “when you come to see my face,” though found in the Hebrew text, are somewhat redundant given the similar expression in the earlier part of the verse. The words are absent from the Syriac Peshitta.
4 tn Heb “you were the one leading out and the one leading in Israel.”
5 tn The name means “Lord of the outbursts.”
6 tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.
7 tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”
8 tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).
9 tn Heb “plant.”
10 tn Heb “shaken.”
11 tn Heb “the sons of violence.”
12 tn Or “rest.”
13 tn In the Hebrew text the verb is apparently perfect with vav consecutive, which would normally suggest a future sense (“he will declare”; so the LXX, ἀπαγγελεῖ [apangelei]). But the context seems instead to call for a present or past nuance (“he declares” or “he has declared”). The synoptic passage in 1 Chr 17:10 has וָאַגִּד (va’aggid, “and I declared”). The construction used in 2 Sam 7:11 highlights this important statement.
14 tn Heb “the
15 tn Heb “house,” but used here in a metaphorical sense, referring to a royal dynasty. Here the
16 tn Heb “house.”
17 tn Heb “and he said to him.”
18 tn An more idiomatic translation might be “Why are you of all people…?”
19 tn Heb “and you will be like one of the fools.”
20 tn Heb “Now.”
21 tn Heb “Don’t set your heart to this thing!”
22 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
23 tc Here and in v. 27 the translation follows 4QSama ויצפר (vayyitspar, “and he pressed”) rather than the MT וַיִּפְרָץ (vayyiprats, “and he broke through”). This emended reading seems also to underlie the translations of the LXX (καὶ ἐβιάσατο, kai ebiasato), the Syriac Peshitta (we’alseh), and Vulgate (cogeret eum).
24 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn Or “for.”
27 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.
28 tn Heb “in order to deliver his maid.”
29 tn Heb “destroy.”
30 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.
31 tn Heb “to know all that is in the land.”
32 tn Heb “turn aside.”
33 tn Heb “turned aside.”
34 tn Heb “son.”
35 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
36 tn Heb “my father’s.”
37 tn Heb “And look, the Cushite came and the Cushite said.”
38 tn Heb “for the
39 tn Heb “and all those rising against you for evil.”
40 tn The Hebrew text has simply “your servant.”
41 tn Heb “what to me and to you.”
42 tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”
43 tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”
44 tn Heb “let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.”
45 tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”
46 sn Threshing sledges were heavy boards used in ancient times for loosening grain from husks. On the bottom sides of these boards sharp stones were embedded, and the boards were then dragged across the grain on a threshing floor by an ox or donkey.
47 tn Heb “the equipment of the oxen.”
