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!” ¹ 

2 Samuel 13:2

13:2 But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick ²  over his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and to Amnon it seemed out of the question to do anything to her.

2 Samuel 13:34

13:34 In the meantime Absalom fled. When the servant who was the watchman looked up, he saw many people coming from the west ³  on a road beside the hill.

2 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Your servant Joab did this so as to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like that of the angel of God, and knows everything that is happening in the land.” ⁴ 

2 Samuel 18:4

18:4 Then the king said to them, “I will do whatever seems best to you.”

So the king stayed beside the city gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

2 Samuel 18:27

18:27 The watchman said, “It appears to me that the first runner is Ahimaaz ⁵  son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and he comes with good news.”

2 Samuel 24:20

24:20 When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he ⁶  went out and bowed to the king with his face ⁷  to the ground.

[10:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and the Lord will do what is good in his eyes.”

[13:2]  ² tn Heb “and there was distress to Amnon so that he made himself sick.”

[13:34]  ³ tn Heb “behind him.”

[14:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “to know all that is in the land.”

[18:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “I am seeing the running of the first one like the running of Ahimaaz.”

[24:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “Araunah.” The name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.

[24:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “nostrils.”