Discovery Box2 Samuel 3:26 
Context3:26 Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah. (But David was not aware of it.)
2 Samuel 6:22
Context6:22 I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! 1 But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!”
2 Samuel 7:15
Context7:15 But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
2 Samuel 8:4
Context8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers 2 and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. 3
2 Samuel 9:13
Context9:13 Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, 4 for he was a regular guest at the king’s table. But both his feet were crippled.
2 Samuel 11:9
Context11:9 But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all 5 the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.
2 Samuel 12:17
Context12:17 The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.
2 Samuel 13:9
Context13:9 But when she took the pan and set it before him, he refused to eat. Instead Amnon said, “Get everyone out of here!” 6 So everyone left. 7
2 Samuel 13:12
Context13:12 But she said to him, “No, my brother! Don’t humiliate me! This just isn’t done in Israel! Don’t do this foolish thing!
2 Samuel 13:22
Context13:22 But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.
2 Samuel 13:37
Context13:37 But Absalom fled and went to King Talmai son of Ammihud of Geshur. And David 8 grieved over his son every day.
2 Samuel 15:3
Context15:3 Absalom would then say to him, “Look, your claims are legitimate and appropriate. 9 But there is no representative of the king who will listen to you.”
2 Samuel 19:10
Context19:10 But Absalom, whom we anointed as our king, 10 has died in battle. So now why do you hesitate to bring the king back?” 11
2 Samuel 20:5
Context20:5 So Amasa went out to call Judah together. But in doing so he took longer than the time that the king had allotted him.
2 Samuel 22:27
Context22:27 You prove to be reliable 12 to one who is blameless,
but you prove to be deceptive 13 to one who is perverse. 14
2 Samuel 23:12
Context23:12 But he made a stand in the middle of that area. He defended 15 it and defeated the Philistines; the Lord gave them a great victory.
1 tn Heb “and I will shame myself still more than this and I will be lowly in my eyes.”
2 tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.
3 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation lacks the word “all.”
6 tn Heb “from upon me.”
7 tc A few medieval Hebrew
8 tc The Hebrew text leaves the word “David” to be inferred. The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate add the word “David.” Most of the Greek tradition includes the words “King David” here.
9 tn Heb “good and straight.”
10 tn Heb “over us.”
11 tc The LXX includes the following words at the end of v. 11: “And what all Israel was saying came to the king’s attention.” The words are misplaced in the LXX from v. 12 (although the same statement appears there in the LXX as well).
12 tn Or “blameless.”
13 tc The translation follows two medieval Hebrew
14 tn The adjective עִקֵּשׁ (’iqqesh) has the basic nuance “twisted; crooked,” and by extension refers to someone or something that is morally perverse. It appears frequently in Proverbs, where it is used of evil people (22:5), speech (8:8; 19:1), thoughts (11:20; 17:20) and life styles (2:15; 28:6). A righteous king opposes such people (Ps 101:4). Verses 26-27 affirm God’s justice. He responds to people in accordance with their moral character. His response mirrors their actions. The faithful and blameless find God to be loyal and reliable in his dealings with them. But deceivers discover he is able and willing to use deceit to destroy them. For a more extensive discussion of the theme of divine deception in the OT, see R. B. Chisholm, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28.
15 tn Heb “delivered.”
