2 Samuel 3:35

3:35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying, “God will punish me severely ¹  if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

2 Samuel 5:2

5:2 In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. ²  The Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”

2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ³  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ⁴  and it will be ⁵  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ⁶  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 11:11

11:11 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 ⁷  with my wife? As surely as you are alive, ⁸  I will not do this thing!”

2 Samuel 17:18

17:18 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 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ⁹  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ¹⁰  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹¹  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

[3:35]  ¹ tn Heb “Thus God will do to me and thus he will add.”

[5:2]  ² tn Heb “you were the one leading out and the one leading in Israel.”

[9:10]  ³ tn Heb “work.”

[9:10]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

[9:10]  ⁵ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

[9:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

[11:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “and lay.”

[11:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”

[20:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”