2 Samuel 1:4

1:4 David inquired, “How were things going? ¹  Tell me!” He replied, “The people fled from the battle and many of them ²  fell dead. ³  Even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead!”

2 Samuel 3:24

3:24 So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Abner ⁴  has come to you! Why would you send him away? Now he’s gone on his way! ⁵ 

2 Samuel 7:6

7:6 I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 7:15

7:15 But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

2 Samuel 11:19-20

11:19 He instructed the messenger as follows: “When you finish giving the battle report to the king, 11:20 if the king becomes angry and asks you, ‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the wall?

2 Samuel 12:28

12:28 So now assemble the rest of the army ⁷  and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city and it will be named for me.”

2 Samuel 15:27

15:27 The king said to Zadok the priest, “Are you a seer? ⁸  Go back to the city in peace! Your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan may go with you and Abiathar. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 16:18

16:18 Hushai replied to Absalom, “No, I will be loyal to the one whom the Lord, these people, and all the men of Israel have chosen. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 23:23

23:23 He received honor from ¹¹  the thirty warriors, though he was not one of the three elite warriors. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “What was the word?”

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “from the people.”

[1:4]  ³ tn Heb “fell and died.”

[3:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look, Abner.”

[3:24]  ⁵ tc The LXX adds “in peace.”

[7:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “in a tent and in a dwelling.” The expression is a hendiadys, using two terms to express one idea.

[12:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “people.” So also in vv. 29, 31.

[15:27]  ⁸ tn The Greek tradition understands the Hebrew word as an imperative (“see”). Most Greek mss have ἴδετε (idete); the Lucianic recension has βλέπε (blepe). It could just as well be taken as a question: “Don’t you see what is happening?” The present translation takes the word as a question, with the implication that Zadok is a priest and not a prophet (i.e., “seer”) and therefore unable to know what the future holds.

[15:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “And Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, two of your sons, with you.” The pronominal suffix on the last word is plural, referring to Zadok and Abiathar.

[16:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “No for with the one whom the Lord has chosen, and this people, and all the men of Israel, I will be and with him I will stay.” The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לוֹ (lo, “[I will be] to him”) rather than the MT לֹא (lo’, “[I will] not be”), which makes very little sense here.

[23:23]  ¹¹ tn Or “more than.”