2 Samuel 2:21

2:21 Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right or to your left. Capture one of the soldiers ¹  and take his equipment for yourself!” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

2 Samuel 3:22

Abner Is Killed

3:22 Now David’s soldiers ²  and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David ³  had sent him away and he had left in peace.

2 Samuel 7:14

7:14 I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

2 Samuel 14:9

14:9 The Tekoan woman said to the king, “My lord the king, let any blame fall on me and on the house of my father. But let the king and his throne be innocent!”

2 Samuel 15:12

15:12 While he was offering sacrifices, Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s adviser, ⁴  to come from his city, Giloh. ⁵  The conspiracy was gaining momentum, and the people were starting to side with Absalom.

2 Samuel 15:27

15:27 The king said to Zadok the priest, “Are you a seer? ⁶  Go back to the city in peace! Your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan may go with you and Abiathar. ⁷ 

2 Samuel 17:2

17:2 When I catch up with ⁸  him he will be exhausted and worn out. ⁹  I will rout him, and the entire army that is with him will flee. I will kill only the king

2 Samuel 19:17

19:17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant ¹⁰  of Saul’s household, and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They hurriedly crossed ¹¹  the Jordan within sight of the king.

2 Samuel 20:7

20:7 So Joab’s men, accompanied by the Kerethites, the Pelethites, and all the warriors, left Jerusalem to pursue Sheba son of Bicri.

2 Samuel 21:7

21:7 The king had mercy on Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, in light of the Lord’s oath that had been taken between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

2 Samuel 21:18

21:18 Later there was another battle with the Philistines, this time in Gob. On that occasion Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was one of the descendants of Rapha.

2 Samuel 24:4

24:4 But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of ¹²  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.

[2:21]  ¹ tn Heb “young men.” So also elsewhere.

[3:22]  ² tn Heb “And look, the servants of David.”

[3:22]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:12]  ⁴ tn Traditionally, “counselor,” but this term is more often associated with psychological counseling today, so “adviser” was used in the translation instead.

[15:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, the adviser of David, from his city, from Giloh, while he was sacrificing.” It is not entirely clear who (Absalom or Ahithophel) was offering the sacrifices.

[15:27]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ 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.

[17:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “and I will come upon him.”

[17:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “exhausted and slack of hands.”

[19:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “youth.”

[19:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “rushed into.”

[24:4]  ¹² tn Heb “and the word of the king was stronger than.”