Discovery Box2 Samuel 5:3 
Context5:3 When all the leaders 1 of Israel came to the king at Hebron, King David made an agreement with them 2 in Hebron before the Lord. They designated 3 David as king over Israel.
2 Samuel 7:2
Context7:2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”
2 Samuel 7:7
Context7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say 4 to any of the leaders 5 whom I appointed to care for 6 my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’
2 Samuel 10:19
Context10:19 When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer 7 saw they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subjects of Israel. 8 The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.
2 Samuel 13:8
Context13:8 So Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, who was lying down. She took the dough, kneaded it, made some cakes while he watched, 9 and baked them. 10
2 Samuel 15:8
Context15:8 For I made this vow 11 when I was living in Geshur in Aram: ‘If the Lord really does allow me to return to Jerusalem, 12 I will serve the Lord.’”
2 Samuel 23:5
Context23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, 13
for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,
arranged in all its particulars and secured.
He always delivers me,
and brings all I desire to fruition. 14
1 tn Heb “elders.”
2 tn Heb “and the king, David, cut for them a covenant.”
3 tn Heb “anointed.”
4 tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.
5 tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”
6 tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).
7 tn Heb “the servants of Hadadezer.”
8 tn Heb “and they served them.”
9 tn Heb “in his sight.”
10 tn Heb “the cakes.”
11 tn Heb “for your servant vowed a vow.” The formal court style of referring to one’s self in third person (“your servant”) has been translated here as first person for clarity.
12 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
13 tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”
14 tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”
