Discovery Box2 Samuel 3:12 
Context3:12 Then Abner sent messengers 1 to David saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement 2 with me, and I will do whatever I can 3 to cause all Israel to turn to you.”
2 Samuel 13:4
Context13:4 He asked Amnon, 4 “Why are you, the king’s son, 5 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 16:10
Context16:10 But the king said, “What do we have in common, 6 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 19:26
Context19:26 He replied, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me! I 7 said, ‘Let me get my donkey saddled so that I can ride on it and go with the king,’ for I 8 am lame.
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.”
1 tn The Hebrew text adds here, “on his behalf.”
2 tn Heb “cut a covenant.” So also in vv. 13, 21.
3 tn Heb “and behold, my hand is with you.”
4 tn Heb “and he said to him.”
5 tn An more idiomatic translation might be “Why are you of all people…?”
6 tn Heb “What to me and to you?”
7 tn Heb “your servant.”
8 tn Heb “your servant.”
