2 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Then Abner spoke privately ¹  with the Benjaminites. Abner also went to Hebron to inform David privately ²  of all that Israel and the entire house of Benjamin had agreed to. ³ 

2 Samuel 3:34

3:34 Your hands ⁴  were not bound,

and your feet were not put into irons.

You fell the way one falls before criminals.”

All the people ⁵  wept over him again.

2 Samuel 3:37

3:37 All the people and all Israel realized on that day that the killing of Abner son of Ner was not done at the king’s instigation. ⁶ 

2 Samuel 5:12

5:12 David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and that he had elevated his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

2 Samuel 6:22

6:22 I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! ⁷  But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!”

2 Samuel 8:4

8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers ⁸  and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. ⁹ 

2 Samuel 16:4

16:4 The king said to Ziba, “Everything that was Mephibosheth’s now belongs to you.” Ziba replied, “I bow before you. May I find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”

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.

[3:19]  ¹ tn Heb “into the ears of.”

[3:19]  ² tn Heb “also Abner went to speak into the ears of David in Hebron.”

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

[3:34]  ⁴ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew manuscripts and several ancient versions in reading “your hands,” rather than “your hand.”

[3:34]  ⁵ tc 4QSam^a lacks the words “all the people.”

[3:37]  ⁶ tn Heb “from the king.”

[6:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “and I will shame myself still more than this and I will be lowly in my eyes.”

[8:4]  ⁸ tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.

[8:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”