Discovery Box2 Samuel 7:13 
Context7:13 He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent. 1
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 2 with my wife? As surely as you are alive, 3 I will not do this thing!”
2 Samuel 19:37
Context19:37 Let me 4 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 22:19
Context22:19 They confronted 5 me in my day of calamity,
but the Lord helped me. 6
2 Samuel 22:22
Context22:22 For I have obeyed the Lord’s commands; 7
I have not rebelled against my God. 8
2 Samuel 22:29
Context22:29 Indeed, 9 you are my lamp, 10 Lord.
The Lord illumines 11 the darkness around me. 12
2 Samuel 22:40-41
Context22:40 You give me strength for battle; 13
you make my foes kneel before me. 14
22:41 You make my enemies retreat; 15
I destroy those who hate me.
2 Samuel 22:45
Context22:45 Foreigners are powerless before me; 16
when they hear of my exploits, they submit to me. 17
2 Samuel 23:2
Context23:2 The Lord’s spirit spoke through me;
his word was on my tongue.
1 tn Heb “and I will establish the throne of his kingdom permanently.”
2 tn Heb “and lay.”
3 tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”
4 tn Heb “your servant.”
5 tn The same verb is translated “trapped” in v. 6. In this poetic narrative context the prefixed verbal form is best understood as a preterite indicating past tense, not imperfect. Cf. NAB, NCV, TEV, NLT “attacked.”
6 tn Heb “became my support.”
7 tn Heb “for I have kept the ways of the
8 tn Heb “I have not acted wickedly from my God.” The statement is elliptical, the idea being, “I have not acted wickedly and, in so doing, departed from my God.”
9 tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.
10 tc Many medieval Hebrew
11 tc The Lucianic Greek recension and Vulgate understand this verb to be second person rather than third person as in the MT. But this is probably the result of reading the preceding word “
12 tn Heb “my darkness.”
13 tn Heb “you clothed me with strength for battle.”
14 tn Heb “you make those who rise against me kneel beneath me.”
15 tn Heb “and [as for] my enemies, you give to me [the] back [or “neck” ].” The idiom “give [the] back” means “to cause [one] to turn the back and run away.” See Exod 23:27 and HALOT 888 s.v. II ערף.
16 tn For the meaning “to be weak; to be powerless” for the verb כָּחַשׁ (kakhash), see Ps 109:24. Verse 46, which also mentions foreigners, favors this interpretation. Another option is to translate “cower in fear” (see Deut 33:29; Pss 66:3; 81:15).
17 tn Heb “at a report of an ear they submit to me.” The report of David’s exploits is so impressive that those who hear it submit to his rulership without putting up a fight.
