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 

Psalms 21:8

21:8 You ³  prevail over ⁴  all your enemies;

your power is too great for those who hate you. ⁵ 

Luke 19:27

19:27 But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, ⁶  bring them here and slaughter ⁷  them ⁸  in front of me!’”

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 tn The king is now addressed. One could argue that the Lord is still being addressed, but v. 9 militates against this proposal, for there the Lord is mentioned in the third person and appears to be distinct from the addressee (unless, of course, one takes “Lord” in v. 9 as vocative; see the note on “them” in v. 9b). Verse 7 begins this transition to a new addressee by referring to both the king and the Lord in the third person (in vv. 1-6 the Lord is addressed and only the king referred to in the third person).

⁴ tn Heb “your hand finds.” The idiom pictures the king grabbing hold of his enemies and defeating them (see 1 Sam 23:17). The imperfect verbal forms in vv. 8-12 may be translated with the future tense, as long as the future is understood as generalizing.

⁵ tn Heb “your right hand finds those who hate you.”

⁶ tn Grk “to rule over them.”

⁷ tn This term, when used of people rather than animals, has some connotations of violence and mercilessness (L&N 20.72).

⁸ sn Slaughter them. To reject the king is to face certain judgment from him.