2 Samuel 22:20

22:20 He brought me out into a wide open place;

he delivered me because he was pleased with me. ¹ 

2 Samuel 20:11

20:11 One of Joab’s soldiers who stood over Amasa said, “Whoever is for ²  Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!”

2 Samuel 23:5

23:5 My dynasty is approved by God, ³ 

for he has made a perpetual covenant with me,

arranged in all its particulars and secured.

He always delivers me,

and brings all I desire to fruition. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 24:3

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?”

[22:20]  ¹ tn Or “delighted in me” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[20:11]  ² tn Heb “takes delight in.”

[23:5]  ³ tn Heb “For not thus [is] my house with God?”

[23:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”