Discovery Box2 Samuel 4:7 
Context4:7 They had entered 1 the house while Ish-bosheth 2 was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him 3 and then cut off his head. 4 Taking his head, 5 they traveled on the way of the Arabah all that night.
2 Samuel 6:12
Context6:12 David was told, 6 “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.
2 Samuel 6:20
Context6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, 7 Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. 8 She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished 9 himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool 10 might do!”
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 11 with my wife? As surely as you are alive, 12 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 12:20
Context12:20 So David got up from the ground, bathed, put on oil, and changed his clothes. He went to the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then, when he entered his palace, he requested that food be brought to him, and he ate.
2 Samuel 16:8
Context16:8 The Lord has punished you for 13 all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”
2 Samuel 17:18
Context17:18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.
2 Samuel 17:23
Context17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave 14 of his father.
2 Samuel 19:28
Context19:28 After all, there was no one in the entire house of my grandfather 15 who did not deserve death from my lord the king. But instead you allowed me to eat at your own table! 16 What further claim do I have to ask 17 the king for anything?”
1 tn After the concluding disjunctive clause at the end of v. 6, the author now begins a more detailed account of the murder and its aftermath.
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ish-bosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “they struck him down and killed him.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.
4 tn Heb “and they removed his head.” The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate lack these words.
5 tc The Lucianic Greek recension lacks the words “his head.”
6 tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”
7 tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”
8 tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
9 tn Heb “honored.”
10 tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”
11 tn Heb “and lay.”
12 tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”
13 tn Heb “has brought back upon you.”
14 tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”
15 tn Heb “father.”
16 tn Heb “and you placed your servant among those who eat at your table.”
17 tn Heb “to cry out to.”
