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 7:23
Context7:23 Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation 2 on the earth? Their God 3 went 4 to claim 5 a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, 6 before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods. 7
2 Samuel 13:6
Context13:6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came in to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can make a couple of cakes in my sight. Then I will eat from her hand.”
2 Samuel 15:20
Context15:20 It seems like you arrived just yesterday. Today should I make you wander around by going with us? I go where I must go. But as for you, go back and take your men 8 with you. May genuine loyal love 9 protect 10 you!”
2 Samuel 18:3
Context18:3 But the soldiers replied, 11 “You should not do this! 12 For if we should have to make a rapid retreat, they won’t be too concerned about us. 13 Even if half of us should die, they won’t be too concerned about us. But you 14 are like ten thousand of us! So it is better if you remain in the city for support.”
1 tn After the cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
2 tn Heb “a nation, one.”
3 tn Heb “whose God” or “because God.” In the Hebrew text this clause is subordinated to what precedes. The clauses are separated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.
5 tn Heb “redeem.”
6 tn Heb “and to do for you [plural form] the great [thing] and awesome [things] for your land.”
7 tn Heb “from Egypt, nations and their gods.” The LXX has “nations and tents,” which reflects a mistaken metathesis of letters in אֶלֹהָיו (e’lohav, “its gods”) and אֹהָלָיו (’ohalav, “its tents”).
8 tn Heb “brothers,” but see v. 22.
9 tn Heb “loyal love and truth.” The expression is a hendiadys.
10 tn Heb “be with.”
11 tn Heb “the people said.”
12 tn Heb “march out.”
13 tn Heb “they will not place to us heart.”
14 tc The translation follows the LXX (except for the Lucianic recension), Symmachus, and Vulgate in reading אָתָּה (’atta, “you”) rather than MT עָתָּה (’atta, “now”).
