2 Samuel 2:5

2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness ¹  to your lord Saul by burying him.

2 Samuel 2:21

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

2 Samuel 3:31

3:31 David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!” Now King David followed ³  behind the funeral bier.

2 Samuel 6:10

6:10 So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

2 Samuel 6:17

6:17 They brought the ark of the Lord and put it in its place ⁴  in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the Lord.

2 Samuel 11:15

11:15 In the letter he wrote: “Station Uriah in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.”

2 Samuel 11:19

11:19 He instructed the messenger as follows: “When you finish giving the battle report to the king,

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, ⁵  for the king’s son is dead.”

2 Samuel 18:31

18:31 Then the Cushite arrived and said, ⁶  “May my lord the king now receive the good news! The Lord has vindicated you today and delivered you from the hand of all who have rebelled against you!” ⁷ 

2 Samuel 19:31

19:31 Now when Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, he crossed the Jordan with the king so he could send him on his way from there. ⁸ 

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 ⁹  the Lord’s inheritance?”

2 Samuel 22:51

22:51 He gives his chosen king magnificent victories; ¹⁰ 

he is faithful to his chosen ruler, ¹¹ 

to David and to his descendants forever!”

[2:5]  ¹ tn Or “loyalty.”

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

[3:31]  ³ tn Heb “was walking.”

[6:17]  ⁴ tc The Syriac Peshitta lacks “in its place.”

[18:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “but this day you will not bear good news.”

[18:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “And look, the Cushite came and the Cushite said.”

[18:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “for the Lord has vindicated you today from the hand of all those rising against you.”

[19:31]  ⁸ tc The MT reading אֶת־בַיַּרְדֵּן (’et-vayyarden, “in the Jordan”) is odd syntactically. The use of the preposition after the object marker אֶת (’et) is difficult to explain. Graphic confusion is likely in the MT; the translation assumes the reading מִיַּרְדֵּן (miyyarden, “from the Jordan”). Another possibility is to read the definite article on the front of “Jordan” (הַיַּרְדֵּן, hayyarden; “the Jordan”).

[21:3]  ⁹ 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).

[22:51]  ¹⁰ tc The translation follows the Kethib and the ancient versions in reading מַגְדִּיל (magdil, “he magnifies”) rather than the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss of the MT which read מִגְדּוֹל (migdol, “tower”). See Ps 18:50.

[22:51]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[the one who] does loyalty to his anointed one.”