1 Samuel 10:27

10:27 But some wicked men ¹  said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. ² 

1 Samuel 10:2

10:2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! ³  He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’

1 Samuel 17:3

17:3 The Philistines were standing on one hill, and the Israelites ⁴  on another hill, with the valley between them.

1 Samuel 17:2

17:2 Saul and the Israelite army ⁵  assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against ⁶  the Philistines.

1 Samuel 17:5

17:5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 1:23

1:23 So her husband Elkanah said to her, “Do what you think best. ⁸  Stay until you have weaned him. May the Lord fulfill his promise.” ⁹ 

So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

Psalms 68:29

68:29 as you come out of your temple in Jerusalem! ¹⁰ 

Kings bring tribute to you.

Psalms 72:10-11

72:10 The kings of Tarshish ¹¹  and the coastlands will offer gifts;

the kings of Sheba ¹²  and Seba ¹³  will bring tribute.

72:11 All kings will bow down to him;

all nations will serve him.

Psalms 76:11

76:11 Make vows to the Lord your God and repay them!

Let all those who surround him ¹⁴  bring tribute to the awesome one!

¹ tn Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12).

² tc In place of the MT (“and it was like one being silent”) the LXX has “after about a month,” taking the expression with the first part of the following chapter rather than with 10:27. Some Hebrew support for this reading appears in the corrected hand of a Qumran ms of Samuel, which has here “about a month.” However, it seems best to stay with the MT here even though it is difficult.

³ sn In the Hebrew text the pronoun you is plural, suggesting that Saul’s father was concerned about his son and the servant who accompanied him.

⁴ tn Heb “Israel.”

⁵ tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”

⁶ tn Heb “to meet.”

⁷ sn Although the exact weight of Goliath’s defensive body armor is difficult to estimate in terms of modern equivalency, it was obviously quite heavy. Driver, following Kennedy, suggests a modern equivalent of about 220 pounds (100 kg); see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 139. Klein, taking the shekel to be equal to .403 ounces, arrives at a somewhat smaller weight of about 126 pounds (57 kg); see R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 175. But by any estimate it is clear that Goliath presented himself as a formidable foe indeed.

⁸ tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

⁹ tn Heb “establish his word.” This apparently refers to the promise inherent in Eli’s priestly blessing (see v. 17).

¹⁰ tn Heb “Be strong, O God, [you] who have acted for us, from your temple in Jerusalem.”

¹¹ sn Tarshish was a distant western port, the precise location of which is uncertain.

¹² sn Sheba was located in Arabia.

¹³ sn Seba was located in Africa.

¹⁴ tn The phrase “all those who surround him” may refer to the surrounding nations (v. 12 may favor this), but in Ps 89:7 the phrase refers to God’s heavenly assembly.