Text -- 1 Samuel 29:4 (NET)

29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Sa 29:4

¹ tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”

² tn Heb “so that he might not become.”

³ tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.