2 Samuel 2:10

2:10 Ish-bosheth son of Saul was forty years old when he began to rule over Israel. He ruled two years. However, the people ¹  of Judah followed David.

2 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Then Abner spoke privately ²  with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately ³  of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 6:5

6:5 while David and all Israel ⁵  were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing ⁶  and playing various stringed instruments, ⁷  tambourines, rattles, ⁸  and cymbals.

2 Samuel 7:24

7:24 You made Israel your very own people for all time. ⁹  You, O Lord, became their God.

2 Samuel 10:12

10:12 Be strong! Let’s fight bravely for the sake of our people and the cities of our God! The Lord will do what he decides is best!” ¹⁰ 

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. ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 24:1

David Displeases the Lord by Taking a Census

24:1 The Lord’s anger again raged against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go count Israel and Judah.” ¹² 

2 Samuel 24:3-4

24:3 Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”

24:4 But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of ¹³  Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king’s presence in order to muster the Israelite army.

2 Samuel 24:9

24:9 Joab reported the number of warriors ¹⁴  to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.

2 Samuel 24:15

24:15 So the Lord sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba.

[2:10]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[3:19]  ² tn Heb “into the ears of.”

[3:19]  ³ tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”

[3:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin.”

[6:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the house of Israel.”

[6:5]  ⁶ tc Heb “were celebrating before the Lord with all woods of fir” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). If the text is retained, the last expression must be elliptical, referring to musical instruments made from fir wood. But it is preferable to emend the text in light of 1 Chr 13:8, which reads “were celebrating before the Lord with all strength and with songs.”

[6:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “with zithers [?] and with harps.”

[6:5]  ⁸ tn That is, “sistrums” (so NAB, NIV); ASV, NASB, NRSV, CEV, NLT “castanets.”

[7:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “and you established for yourself your people Israel for yourself for a people permanently.”

[10:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the Lord will do what is good in his eyes.”

[16:18]  ¹¹ 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.

[24:1]  ¹² sn The parallel text in 1 Chr 21:1 says, “An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.” The Samuel version gives an underlying theological perspective, while the Chronicler simply describes what happened from a human perspective. The adversary in 1 Chr 21:1 is likely a human enemy, probably a nearby nation whose hostility against Israel pressured David into numbering the people so he could assess his military strength. See the note at 1 Chr 21:1.

[24:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the word of the king was stronger than.”

[24:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and Joab gave the number of the numbering of the people.”