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 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 2 hand the Philistines over to you.”
2 Samuel 5:23
Context5:23 So David asked the Lord what he should do. 3 This time 4 the Lord 5 said to him, “Don’t march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees. 6
2 Samuel 6:16-17
Context6:16 As the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him. 7 6:17 They brought the ark of the Lord and put it in its place 8 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 7:18-19
Context7:18 King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, 9 that you should have brought me to this point? 7:19 And you didn’t stop there, O Lord God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. 10 Is this your usual way of dealing with men, 11 O Lord God?
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 12 your sin. You are not going to die.
2 Samuel 15:8
Context15:8 For I made this vow 13 when I was living in Geshur in Aram: ‘If the Lord really does allow me to return to Jerusalem, 14 I will serve the Lord.’”
2 Samuel 18:31
Context18:31 Then the Cushite arrived and said, 15 “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!” 16
2 Samuel 21:1
Context21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 17 The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 18 because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
2 Samuel 21:6
Context21:6 let seven of his male descendants be turned over to us, and we will execute 19 them before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, who was the Lord’s chosen one.” 20 The king replied, “I will turn them over.”
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?”
2 Samuel 24:10
Context24:10 David felt guilty 21 after he had numbered the army. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O Lord, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
2 Samuel 24:21
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.”
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 Or “loyalty.”
2 tn The infinitive absolute lends emphasis to the following verb.
3 tn The words “what to do” are not in the Hebrew text.
4 tn The words “this time” are not in the Hebrew text.
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
6 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.
7 tn The Hebrew text adds “in her heart.” Cf. CEV “she was disgusted (+ with him TEV)”; NLT “was filled with contempt for him”; NCV “she hated him.”
8 tc The Syriac Peshitta lacks “in its place.”
9 tn Heb “house.”
10 tn Heb “and this was small in your eyes, O
11 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).
12 tn Heb “removed.”
13 tn Heb “for your servant vowed a vow.” The formal court style of referring to one’s self in third person (“your servant”) has been translated here as first person for clarity.
14 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
15 tn Heb “And look, the Cushite came and the Cushite said.”
16 tn Heb “for the
17 tn Heb “sought the face of the
18 tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”
19 tn The exact nature of this execution is not altogether clear. The verb יָקַע (yaqa’) basically means “to dislocate” or “alienate.” In Gen 32:26 it is used of the dislocation of Jacob’s thigh. Figuratively it can refer to the removal of an individual from a group (e.g., Jer 6:8; Ezek 23:17) or to a type of punishment the specific identity of which is uncertain (e.g., here and Num 25:4); cf. NAB “dismember them”; NIV “to be killed and exposed.”
20 tc The LXX reads “at Gibeon on the mountain of the
21 tn Heb “and the heart of David struck him.”
