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 12:31
Context12:31 He removed 2 the people who were in it and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy 3 with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem. 4
2 Samuel 19:6
Context19:6 You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now 5 that if 6 Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, 7 it would be all right with you.
2 Samuel 19:9
Context19:9 All the people throughout all the tribes of Israel were arguing among themselves saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies. He rescued us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.
2 Samuel 19:41
Context19:41 Then all the men of Israel began coming to the king. They asked the king, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, sneak the king away and help the king and his household cross the Jordan – and not only him but all of David’s men as well?”
1 tn After the cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
2 tn Heb “brought out.”
3 tn Heb “and so he would do.”
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 tn Heb “today.”
6 tc The translation follows the Qere, 4QSama, and many medieval Hebrew
7 tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack “today.”
