2 Samuel 7:7

7:7 Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say ¹  to any of the leaders ²  whom I appointed to care for ³  my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

2 Samuel 10:2

10:2 David said, “I will express my loyalty ⁴  to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal ⁵  to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. ⁶  When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 14:19

14:19 The king said, “Did Joab put you up to all of this?” ⁷  The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, there is no deviation to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has said. For your servant Joab gave me instructions. He has put all these words in your servant’s mouth.

2 Samuel 19:22

19:22 But David said, “What do we have in common, ⁸  you sons of Zeruiah? You are like my enemy today! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don’t you realize that today I am king over Israel?”

[7:7]  ¹ tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question.

[7:7]  ² tn Heb “tribes” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges.”

[7:7]  ³ tn Heb “whom I commanded to shepherd” (so NIV, NRSV).

[10:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “do loyalty.”

[10:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “did loyalty.”

[10:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”

[14:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”

[19:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “what to me and to you.”