• 2Sa 2:17 - c/m: SORE: fierce

• 2Sa 3:10 - c/m: TRANSLATE(D): transfer(red)
• 2Sa 3:33 - a/r: DIED ABNER or: Should Abner die

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• 2Sa 5:8 - c/m: GUTTER: watercourse
• 2Sa 5:23 - c/m: FETCH(ED) A COMPASS: make (made) a circuit

• 2Sa 6:5 - c/m: CORNETS: castanets
• 2Sa 6:19 - c/m: FLAGON(S) OF WINE: cake(s) of raisins

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• 2Sa 8:4 - c/m: HOUGH(ED): hock(ed)

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• 2Sa 11:4 - David covets and commits adultery with Bathsheba.
  • To explore "Adultery: the physical act, the thought, and divorce & remarriage -- the three forms of adultery described by Jesus in the gospels," browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/adultery.htm.
  • To read the text of the 7th commandment ("Do not commit adultery") from 3 different Bible versions and explore additional references, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/10commandments-texts.htm#7.
  • To read the text of the 10th commitment ("Do not covet..") from 3 different Bible versions and explore additional references, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/10commandments-texts.htm#10.
• 2Sa 11:14-17 - David conspires and has Bathsheba's husband killed.
  • David began by breaking the 10th commandment, which led to breaking the 7th commandment, which led to breaking the 6th commandment. According to Jewish law, breaking either the 6th or the 7th commandment required capital punishment, which was not carried out on David.
  • To read the text of the 6th commitment ("Do not kill") from 3 different Bible versions and explore additional references, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/10commandments-texts.htm#6

• 2Sa 12:13 - David confesses that he sinned
  • Mary Baker Eddy wrote (Mis 109:10-12), "The knowledge of evil that brings on repentance is the most hopeful stage of mortal mentality."
  • To further explore confessing, forsaking sin, repenting, and reforming, see also:
  • Pro 28:13
  • Jam 5:16
  • 1Jo 1:8,9
  • Mis 109:8
  • Mis 261:9-12
  • S&H 339:17
  • S&H 447:20-27
  • confessing sins: http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/c.htm#confessing-sin
  • confessing sins, in the context of the Lord's Prayer: http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/prayer2.htm#2d1
  • repentance: http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/r.htm#repent
  • Christian correction: http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/christiancorrection.htm

• 2Sa 13:5 - c/m: MEAT: bread
• 2Sa 13:5 - c/m: MEAT: food
• 2Sa 13:7 - c/m: MEAT: food
• 2Sa 13:10 - c/m: MEAT: food.

• 2Sa 14:26 - c/m: POLL(ED): cut the hair of

• 2Sa 15:28 - c/m: CERTIFY: advise
• 2Sa 15:31 - Ahithophel
  • For a Bible dictionary description of Ahithophel, see http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/ahithophel.htm.
• 2Sa 15:31 - David's prayer

  • Harper’s Bible Commentary (edited by James Luther Mays, New York: Harper and Row, 1988) comments:

    Word comes of Ahithophel’s treachery, to which David responds with a prayer: “Yhwh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into folly” (v. 31). “And it came to pass,” continues the narrator, “that when David came to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai came to meet him” (v. 32). As the story unfolds it will become clear that Hushai is the answer to David’s prayer. The king’s friend (v. 37; 16:16) will persuade Absalom to reject Ahithophel’s advice and so allow David to escape safely across the Jordan (17:1-22). The narrator makes explicit the connections in 17:14: “For Yhwh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel, in order that Yhwh might bring evil upon Absalom.”

    Ahithophel, summoned to treachery as Absalom offered sacrifices at Hebron, finds his best counsel rejected. Hushai, called to loyalty as David prays “where God is worshiped,” finds his deceptive counsel accepted. Irony is a hallmark of Yhwh’s workings in this story.

• 2Sa 16:1 - c/m: BOTTLES OF WINE: wine-skins
• 2Sa 16:21-22 - Absalom's having sexual relations with David's concubines
  • Hans Wilhelm Hertzberg (The Old Testament Library: I & II Samuel, translated by J.S. Bowden, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1964) comments (page 350):

    Ahithophel recommends the young king [Absalom] as a first step to take possession of his predecessor's harem. David is reported to have acted similarly with Saul's harem (12.8), and this may have been the usual custom. Here, however, there is the added point that Absalom's predecessor was also his father. Reuben, who lies with his father's concubine, incurs a curse (Gen. 35:22; 49:3f.) and loses the right of a firstborn. Absalom's act must have been assessed in the same way by those who narrated it and heard of it. What at first sight is a move of infamous skill, in practice and in the long run proves to be the reason for Absalom's failure, in that he sets himself above human and divine law.

• 2Sam 17:6 - Hushai
  • For a Bible dictionary description of Hushai, see http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/hushai.htm.
• 2Sa 17:17 - c/m: WENCH: maidservant
• 2Sa 17:19 - c/m: CORN: grain
• 2Sa 17:23 - Ahithophel's suicide
  • To explore biblical and early Christian teachings regarding suicide, see http://www.bibletexts.com/qa/qa124.htm.
• 2Sa 17:28 - c/m: CORN: grain
• 2Sa 17:29 - c/m: KINE: cows

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• 2Sa 19:13 - c/m: IN THE ROOM: instead

• 2Sa 20:21 - c/m: MOUNT (OF): the hill country of

• 2Sa 21:8 - c/m: BROUGHT UP FOR: bore unto

• 2Sa 22:6 - a/r: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol
• 2Sa 22:6 - c/m: PREVENT(ED): came upon
• 2Sa 22:16 - c/m: DISCOVER(ED)(ETH)(ING): uncover(ed)(ing)
• 2Sa 22:19 - c/m: PREVENT(ED): came upon
• 2Sa 22:27 - c/m: FROWARD: perverse
• 2Sa 22:29 - a/r: THOU ART MY LAMP, O LORD: AND THE LORD WILL LIGHTEN MY DARKNESS or: You, Lord, are my light; you dispel my darkness. {TEV}

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