Discovery Box2 Samuel 2:4 
Context2:4 The men of Judah came and there they anointed David as king over the people 1 of Judah.
David was told, 2 “The people 3 of Jabesh Gilead are the ones who buried Saul.”
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. 4
2 Samuel 7:19
Context7:19 And you didn’t stop there, O Lord God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. 5 Is this your usual way of dealing with men, 6 O Lord God?
2 Samuel 9:2
Context9:2 Now there was a servant from Saul’s house named Ziba, so he was summoned to David. The king asked him, “Are you Ziba?” He replied, “At your service.” 7
2 Samuel 10:18
Context10:18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers. 8 He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.
2 Samuel 13:28
Context13:28 Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk 9 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!” 10
2 Samuel 14:6
Context14:6 Your servant 11 has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.
2 Samuel 14:25
Context14:25 Now in all Israel everyone acknowledged that there was no man as handsome as Absalom. 12 From the sole of his feet to the top of his head he was perfect in appearance. 13
2 Samuel 15:21
Context15:21 But Ittai replied to the king, “As surely as the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive, 14 there I 15 will be as well!”
2 Samuel 15:36
Context15:36 Furthermore, their two sons are there with them, Zadok’s son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan. You must send them to me with any information you hear.” 16
2 Samuel 17:13
Context17:13 If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”
2 Samuel 17:22
Context17:22 So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. 17 By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.
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 19:17
Context19:17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant 18 of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed 19 the Jordan within sight of the king.
2 Samuel 21:1
Context21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 20 The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 21 because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
2 Samuel 21:20
Context21:20 Yet another battle occurred in Gath. On that occasion there was a large man 22 who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all! He too was a descendant of Rapha.
2 Samuel 23:4
Context23:4 is like the light of morning when the sun comes up,
a morning in which there are no clouds.
He is like the brightness after rain
that produces grass from the earth.
2 Samuel 23:9
Context23:9 Next in command 23 was Eleazar son of Dodo, 24 the son of Ahohi. He was one of the three warriors who were with David when they defied the Philistines who were assembled there for battle. When the men of Israel retreated, 25
2 Samuel 23:11
Context23:11 Next in command 26 was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines assembled at Lehi, 27 where there happened to be an area of a field that was full of lentils, the army retreated before the Philistines.
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 “house.”
2 tn Heb “and they told David.” The subject appears to be indefinite, allowing one to translate the verb as passive with David as subject.
3 tn Heb “men.”
4 tn The name means “Lord of the outbursts.”
5 tn Heb “and this was small in your eyes, O
6 tn Heb “and this [is] the law of man”; KJV “is this the manner of man, O Lord God?”; NAB “this too you have shown to man”; NRSV “May this be instruction for the people, O Lord God!” This part of the verse is very enigmatic; no completely satisfying solution has yet been suggested. The present translation tries to make sense of the MT by understanding the phrase as a question that underscores the uniqueness of God’s dealings with David as described here. The parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:17 reads differently (see the note there).
7 tn Heb “your servant.”
8 tn Heb “horsemen” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT) but the Lucianic recension of the LXX reads “foot soldiers,” as does the parallel text in 1 Chr 19:18. Cf. NAB, NIV.
9 tn Heb “when good is the heart of Amnon with wine.”
10 tn Heb “and become sons of valor.”
11 tn Here and elsewhere (vv. 7, 12, 15a, 17, 19) the woman uses a term which suggests a lower level female servant. She uses the term to express her humility before the king. However, she uses a different term in vv. 15b-16. See the note at v. 15 for a discussion of the rhetorical purpose of this switch in terminology.
12 tn Heb “Like Absalom there was not a handsome man in all Israel to boast exceedingly.”
13 tn Heb “there was not in him a blemish.”
14 tn Heb “whether for death or for life.”
15 tn Heb “your servant.”
16 tn Heb “and you must send by their hand to me every word which you hear.” Both of the second person verb forms are plural with Zadok, Abiathar, and Hushai being the understood subjects.
17 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text here or in v. 24, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
18 tn Heb “youth.”
19 tn Heb “rushed into.”
20 tn Heb “sought the face of the
21 tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”
22 tn Heb “a man of stature.”
23 tn Heb “after him.”
24 tc This follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
25 tn Heb “went up.”
26 tn Heb “after him.”
27 tn The Hebrew text is difficult here. The MT reads לַחַיָּה (lachayyah), which implies a rare use of the word חַיָּה (chayyah). The word normally refers to an animal, but if the MT is accepted it would here have the sense of a troop or community of people. BDB 312 s.v. II. חַיָּה, for example, understands the similar reference in v. 13 to be to “a group of allied families, making a raid together.” But this works better in v. 13 than it does in v. 11, where the context seems to suggest a particular staging location for a military operation. (See 1 Chr 11:15.) It therefore seems best to understand the word in v. 11 as a place name with ה (he) directive. In that case the Masoretes mistook the word for the common term for an animal and then tried to make sense of it in this context.
