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 5:6
Context5:6 Then the king and his men advanced to Jerusalem 2 against the Jebusites who lived in the land. The Jebusites 3 said to David, “You cannot invade this place! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back, saying, ‘David cannot invade this place!’”
2 Samuel 6:20
Context6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, 4 Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. 5 She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished 6 himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool 7 might do!”
2 Samuel 8:10
Context8:10 he 8 sent his son Joram 9 to King David to extend his best wishes 10 and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Toi had been at war with Hadadezer. 11 He brought with him various items made of silver, gold, and bronze. 12
2 Samuel 10:6
Context10:6 When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, 13 they 14 sent and hired 20,000 foot soldiers from Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah, 15 in addition to 1,000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob. 16
2 Samuel 12:30
Context12:30 He took the crown of their king 17 from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, 18 and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.
2 Samuel 13:32
Context13:32 Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, said, “My lord should not say, ‘They have killed all the young men who are the king’s sons.’ For only Amnon is dead. This is what Absalom has talked about 19 from the day that Amnon 20 humiliated his sister Tamar.
2 Samuel 14:11
Context14:11 She replied, “In that case, 21 let the king invoke the name of 22 the Lord your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of your son’s head 23 will fall to the ground.”
2 Samuel 14:26
Context14:26 When he would shave his head – at the end of every year he used to shave his head, for it grew too long 24 and he would shave it – he used to weigh the hair of his head at three pounds 25 according to the king’s weight.
2 Samuel 15:2
Context15:2 Now Absalom used to get up early and stand beside the road that led to the city gate. Whenever anyone came by who had a complaint to bring to the king for arbitration, Absalom would call out to him, “What city are you from?” The person would answer, “I, your servant, 26 am from one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 15:25
Context15:25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.
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 17:16
Context17:16 Now send word quickly to David and warn him, 27 “Don’t spend the night at the fords of the desert 28 tonight. Instead, be sure you cross over, 29 or else the king and everyone who is with him may be overwhelmed.” 30
2 Samuel 18:2
Context18:2 David then sent out the army – a third under the leadership of Joab, a third under the leadership of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under the leadership of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I too will indeed march out with you.”
2 Samuel 18:18
Context18:18 Prior to this 31 Absalom had set up a monument 32 and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning “I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial.
2 Samuel 18:33
Context18:33 (19:1) 33 The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, “My son, Absalom! My son, my son, 34 Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!” 35
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 19:35
Context19:35 I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I 36 taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I 37 continue to be a burden to my lord the king?
2 Samuel 19:37
Context19:37 Let me 38 return so that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But look, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever seems appropriate to you.”
2 Samuel 20:3
Context20:3 Then David went to his palace 39 in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. 40 Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. 41 They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.
2 Samuel 20:21-22
Context20:21 That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled 42 against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute 43 his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”
20:22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab 44 blew the trumpet, and his men 45 dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. 46 Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 21:2
Context21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to 47 them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
2 Samuel 21:8
Context21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab 48 whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
2 Samuel 21:14
Context21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything 49 that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers 50 for the land.
2 Samuel 24:24
Context24:24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it from you! I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.”
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver. 51
1 tn After the cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
2 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
3 tn The Hebrew text has “he” rather than “the Jebusites.” The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In the Syriac Peshitta and some
4 tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”
5 tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
6 tn Heb “honored.”
7 tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”
8 tn Heb “Toi.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun in the translation for stylistic reasons.
9 tn The name appears as “Hadoram” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:10.
10 tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”
11 tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.”
12 tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”
13 tn Heb “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”
14 tn Heb “the Ammonites.”
15 tn Or “Arameans of Beth Rehob and Arameans of Zobah.”
16 tn Or perhaps “the men of Tob.” The ancient versions (the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) understand the name to be “Ish-tob.” It is possible that “Ish” is dittographic and that we should read simply “Tob,” a reading adopted by a number of recent English versions.
17 tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”
18 tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.
19 tn Heb “it was placed on the mouth of Absalom.”
20 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amnon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn The words “in that case” are not in the Hebrew text, but may be inferred from the context. They are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarification.
22 tn Heb “let the king remember.”
23 tn Heb “of your son.”
24 tn Heb “for it was heavy upon him.”
25 tn Heb “two hundred shekels.” The modern equivalent would be about three pounds (1.4 kg).
26 tn Heb “your servant.” So also in vv. 8, 15, 21.
27 tn Heb “send quickly and tell David saying.”
28 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV).
29 tn That is, “cross over the Jordan River.”
30 tn Heb “swallowed up.”
31 tn Heb “and.” This disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) describes an occurrence that preceded the events just narrated.
32 tn Heb “a pillar.”
33 sn This marks the beginning of ch. 19 in the Hebrew text. Beginning with 18:33, the verse numbers through 19:43 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 18:33 ET = 19:1 HT, 19:1 ET = 19:2 HT, 19:2 ET = 19:3 HT, etc., through 19:43 ET = 19:44 HT. From 20:1 the versification in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible is again the same.
34 tc One medieval Hebrew
35 tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Syriac Peshitta lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography.
36 tn Heb “your servant.”
37 tn Heb “your servant.”
38 tn Heb “your servant.”
39 tn Heb “house.”
40 tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”
41 tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”
42 tn Heb “lifted his hand.”
43 tn Heb “Look!”
44 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
45 tn Heb “they”; the referent (Joab’s men) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
46 tn Heb “his tents.”
47 tn Heb “swore an oath to.”
48 tc The MT reads “Michal” here, but two Hebrew manuscripts read “Merab,” along with some LXX manuscripts. Cf. 1 Sam 18:19.
49 tc Many medieval Hebrew
50 tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).
51 tn Heb “fifty shekels of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.
