2 Samuel 5:2

5:2 In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. ¹  The Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.’”

2 Samuel 12:9

12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my ²  sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! ³  You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 21:1

The Gibeonites Demand Revenge

21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. ⁴  The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, ⁵  because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

[5:2]  ¹ tn Heb “you were the one leading out and the one leading in Israel.”

[12:9]  ² tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”

[12:9]  ³ tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.

[21:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “sought the face of the Lord.”

[21:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”