Discovery Box2 Samuel 3:21 
Context3:21 Abner said to David, “Let me leave so that I may go and gather all Israel to my lord the king so that they may make an agreement 1 with you. Then you will rule over all that you desire.” So David sent Abner away, and he left in peace.
2 Samuel 11:11
Context11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations 2 with my wife? As surely as you are alive, 3 I will not do this thing!”
2 Samuel 11:13
Context11:13 Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.
2 Samuel 11:21
Context11:21 Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone 4 down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?’ just say to him, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”
2 Samuel 14:30
Context14:30 So he said to his servants, “Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.” 5 So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s 6 portion of the field on fire.
2 Samuel 15:14
Context15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, 7 “Come on! 8 Let’s escape! 9 Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring 10 disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” 11
2 Samuel 15:34
Context15:34 But you will be able to counter the advice of Ahithophel if you go back to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king! Previously I was your father’s servant, and now I will be your servant.’
2 Samuel 20:1
Context20:1 Now a wicked man 12 named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, 13 happened to be there. He blew the trumpet 14 and said,
“We have no share in David;
we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!
Every man go home, 15 O Israel!”
2 Samuel 21:17
Context21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying, “You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”
1 tn After the cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
2 tn Heb “and lay.”
3 tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”
4 sn The upper millstone (Heb “millstone of riding”) refers to the heavy circular stone that was commonly rolled over a circular base in order to crush and grind such things as olives.
5 tc The LXX adds here the following words: “And the servants of Absalom burned them up. And the servants of Joab came to him, rending their garments. They said….”
6 tn The word “Joab’s” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
7 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
8 tn Heb “Arise!”
9 tn Heb “let’s flee.”
10 tn Heb “thrust.”
11 tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
12 tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”
13 tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Sam 9:4 and Esth 2:5. Cf. 1 Sam 9:1.
14 tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.
15 tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.
