Discovery Box2 Samuel 3:18 
Context3:18 Act now! For the Lord has said to David, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save 1 my people Israel from 2 the Philistines and from all their enemies.’”
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 3 to make you leader of my people Israel.
2 Samuel 14:9
Context14:9 The Tekoan woman said to the king, “My lord the king, let any blame fall on me and on the house of my father. But let the king and his throne be innocent!”
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, 4 there I 5 will be as well!”
2 Samuel 19:13
Context19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? 6 God will punish me severely, 7 if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
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?”
1 tc The present translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate in reading “I will save,” rather than the MT “he saved.” The context calls for the 1st person common singular imperfect of the verb rather than the 3rd person masculine singular perfect.
2 tn Heb “from the hand of.”
3 tn Heb “and from after the sheep.”
4 tn Heb “whether for death or for life.”
5 tn Heb “your servant.”
6 tn Heb “my bone and my flesh.”
7 tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”
