Discovery Box2 Samuel 2:5 
Context2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness 1 to your lord Saul by burying him.
2 Samuel 2:16
Context2:16 As they grappled with one another, each one stabbed his opponent with his sword and they fell dead together. 2 So that place is called the Field of Flints; 3 it is in Gibeon.
2 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. 4 How then could I show 5 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.” 6
2 Samuel 3:24
Context3:24 So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Abner 7 has come to you! Why would you send him away? Now he’s gone on his way! 8
2 Samuel 5:19
Context5:19 So David asked the Lord, “Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The Lord said to David, “March up, for I will indeed 9 hand the Philistines over to you.”
2 Samuel 5:23
Context5:23 So David asked the Lord what he should do. 10 This time 11 the Lord 12 said to him, “Don’t march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees. 13
2 Samuel 6:10
Context6:10 So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
2 Samuel 7:8
Context7:8 “So now, say this to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd 14 to make you leader of my people Israel.
2 Samuel 7:29
Context7:29 Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty 15 so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!” 16
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.” 17
2 Samuel 10:5
Context10:5 Messengers 18 told David what had happened, 19 so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho 20 until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.”
2 Samuel 11:20
Context11:20 if the king becomes angry and asks you, ‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the wall?
2 Samuel 12:19
Context12:19 When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he 21 realized that the child was dead. So David asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” They replied, “Yes, he’s dead.”
2 Samuel 12:24
Context12:24 So David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to her and had marital relations with her. 22 She gave birth to a son, and David 23 named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved the child 24
2 Samuel 13:2
Context13:2 But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick 25 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 13:8
Context13:8 So Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, who was lying down. She took the dough, kneaded it, made some cakes while he watched, 26 and baked them. 27
2 Samuel 13:10
Context13:10 Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the cakes into the bedroom; then I will eat from your hand.” So Tamar took the cakes that she had prepared and brought them to her brother Amnon in the bedroom.
2 Samuel 13:18
Context13:18 (Now she was wearing a long robe, 28 for this is what the king’s virgin daughters used to wear.) So Amnon’s 29 attendant removed her and bolted the door 30 behind her.
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!” 31 Tamar, devastated, lived in the house of her brother Absalom.
2 Samuel 13:29
Context13:29 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 14:20
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.” 32
2 Samuel 14:24
Context14:24 But the king said, “Let him go over 33 to his own house. He may not see my face.” So Absalom went over 34 to his own house; he did not see the king’s face.
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 14:33
Context14:33 So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king 35 summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom 36 bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him. 37
2 Samuel 16:13
Context16:13 So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them. 38
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. 39 By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.
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 19:2
Context19:2 So the victory of that day was turned to mourning as far as all the people were concerned. For the people heard on that day, “The king is grieved over his son.”
2 Samuel 19:5
Context19:5 So Joab visited 40 the king at his home. He said, “Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day, as well as the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your concubines.
2 Samuel 19:15
Context19:15 So the king returned and came to the Jordan River. 41
Now the people of Judah 42 had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him 43 cross the Jordan.
2 Samuel 19:26
Context19:26 He replied, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me! I 44 said, ‘Let me get my donkey saddled so that I can ride on it and go with the king,’ for I 45 am lame.
2 Samuel 20:2
Context20:2 So all the men of Israel deserted 46 David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River 47 to Jerusalem. 48
2 Samuel 21:1
Context21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 49 The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 50 because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
2 Samuel 21:5
Context21:5 They replied to the king, “As for this man who exterminated us and who schemed against us so that we were destroyed and left without status throughout all the borders of Israel –
2 Samuel 23:17
Context23:17 and said, “O Lord, I will not do this! 51 It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” 52 So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors. 53
2 Samuel 24:2
Context24:2 The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.”
2 Samuel 24:4
Context24:4 But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of 54 Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king’s presence in order to muster the Israelite army.
1 tn Or “loyalty.”
2 tn Heb “and they grabbed each one the head of his neighbor with his sword in the side of his neighbor and they fell together.”
3 tn The meaning of the name “Helkath Hazzurim” (so NIV; KJV, NASB, NRSV similar) is not clear. BHK relates the name to the Hebrew term for “side,” and this is reflected in NAB “the Field of the Sides”; the Greek OT revocalizes the Hebrew to mean something like “Field of Adversaries.” Cf. also TEV, NLT “Field of Swords”; CEV “Field of Daggers.”
4 tn Heb “Why should I strike you to the ground?”
5 tn Heb “lift.”
6 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.
7 tn Heb “Look, Abner.”
8 tc The LXX adds “in peace.”
9 tn The infinitive absolute lends emphasis to the following verb.
10 tn The words “what to do” are not in the Hebrew text.
11 tn The words “this time” are not in the Hebrew text.
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
13 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.
14 tn Heb “and from after the sheep.”
15 tn Heb “house” (again later in this verse). See the note on “dynastic house” in v. 27.
16 tn Or “permanently”; cf. NLT “it is an eternal blessing.”
17 tn Heb “your servant.”
18 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn The words “what had happened” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
20 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
21 tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.
22 tn Heb “and he lay with her.”
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity. While some translations render the pronoun as third person plural (“they”), implying that both David and Bathsheba together named the child, it is likely that the name “Solomon,” which is related to the Hebrew word for “peace” (and may be derived from it) had special significance for David, who would have regarded the birth of a second child to Bathsheba as a confirming sign that God had forgiven his sin and was at peace with him.
24 tn Heb “him,” referring to the child.
25 tn Heb “and there was distress to Amnon so that he made himself sick.”
26 tn Heb “in his sight.”
27 tn Heb “the cakes.”
28 tn The Hebrew expression used here (כְּתֹנֶת פַּסִּים, kÿtonet passim) is found only here and in Gen 37:3, 23, 32. Hebrew פַּס (pas) can refer to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot; here the idea is probably that of a long robe reaching to the feet and having sleeves reaching to the wrists. The notion of a “coat of many colors” (KJV, ASV “garment of divers colors”), a familiar translation for the phrase in Genesis, is based primarily on the translation adopted in the LXX χιτῶνα ποικίλον (citona poikilion) and does not have a great deal of support.
29 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Amnon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
30 tn The Hebrew verb is a perfect with nonconsecutive vav, probably indicating an action (locking the door) that complements the preceding one (pushing her out the door).
31 tn Heb “Don’t set your heart to this thing!”
32 tn Heb “to know all that is in the land.”
33 tn Heb “turn aside.”
34 tn Heb “turned aside.”
35 tn Heb “he.” Joab, acting on behalf of the king, may be the implied subject.
36 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Absalom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
37 tn Heb “Absalom.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.
38 tn Heb “and he cursed and threw stones, opposite him, pelting [them] with dirt.” The offline vÿqatal construction in the last clause indicates an action that was complementary to the action described in the preceding clause. He simultaneously threw stones and dirt.
39 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text here or in v. 24, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Heb “came to.”
41 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
42 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Judah.”
43 tn Heb “the king.” The pronoun (“him”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.
44 tn Heb “your servant.”
45 tn Heb “your servant.”
46 tn Heb “went up from after.”
47 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
48 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
49 tn Heb “sought the face of the
50 tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”
51 tn Heb “Far be it to me, O
52 tn Heb “[Is it not] the blood of the men who were going with their lives?”
53 tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”
54 tn Heb “and the word of the king was stronger than.”
