II Samuel שְׁמוּאֵל ב

II Samuel (Shemuel Bet) is the book of David's kingship: anointed first over Judah in Hebron and then over all Israel, he takes Zion, brings up the ark, and receives the promise that his throne shall be established for ever. Its twenty-four chapters do not flatter their subject — the matter of Bath-sheba and Uriah, Nathan's parable, and the sword that does not depart from David's house: Amnon and Tamar, Absalom's revolt, Sheba's rebellion, and the census and its plague, closing at the threshing-floor of Araunah where the altar of the future Temple is fixed. Tradition assigns the book to the prophets Gad and Nathan, continuing what Samuel began. This volume presents the complete Hebrew text with English translation, a word-by-word interlinear layer with transliteration, roots, and gematria, and the classic commentaries of Rashi, Radak, Ralbag, Metzudat David, Metzudat Zion, Malbim, and Abarbanel, newly translated into English.