2 Samuel 18:20

18:20 But Joab said to him, “You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today, ¹  for the king’s son is dead.”

2 Samuel 21:3

21:3 David said to the Gibeonites, “What can I do for you, and how can I make amends so that you will bless ²  the Lord’s inheritance?”

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, ³ 

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. ⁴ 

[18:20]  ¹ tn Heb “but this day you will not bear good news.”

[21:3]  ² tn After the preceding imperfect verbal form, the subordinated imperative indicates purpose/result. S. R. Driver comments, “…the imper. is used instead of the more normal voluntative, for the purpose of expressing with somewhat greater force the intention of the previous verb” (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 350).

[23:5]  ³ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

[23:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”