1 Samuel 13:15

13:15 Then Samuel set out and went up from Gilgal ¹  to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. ²  Saul mustered the army that remained with him; there were about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 15:4

15:4 So Saul assembled ³  the army ⁴  and mustered them at Telaim. There were 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ⁵  Israel along the way when Israel ⁶  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 24:9

24:9 David said to Saul, “Why do you pay attention when men say, ‘David is seeking to do you harm’?

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ⁷  David and his men in the region of ⁸  the rocks of the mountain goats. ⁹ 

1 Samuel 17:12-19

17:12 ¹⁰ Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ¹¹  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ¹²  17:13 Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to war. The names of the ¹³  three sons who went to war were Eliab, his firstborn, Abinadab, the second oldest, and Shammah, the third oldest. 17:14 Now David was the youngest. While the three oldest sons followed Saul, 17:15 David was going back and forth ¹⁴  from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

17:16 Meanwhile for forty days the Philistine approached every morning and evening and took his position. 17:17 Jesse said to his son David, “Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly ¹⁵  to the camp to your brothers. 17:18 Also take these ten portions of cheese to their commanding officer. ¹⁶  Find out how your brothers are doing ¹⁷  and bring back their pledge that they received the goods. ¹⁸  17:19 They are with Saul and the whole Israelite army ¹⁹  in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”

¹ tc The LXX and two Old Latin mss include the following words here: “on his way. And the rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the warring army. When they arrived from Gilgal….”

² tn Heb “at Gibeah of Benjamin.” The words “in the territory” are supplied in the translation for clarity (likewise in the following verse).

³ tn Heb “caused the people to hear.”

⁴ tn Heb “people.”

⁵ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “to search [for].”

⁸ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

⁹ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

¹⁰ tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

¹¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

¹² tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”

¹³ tn Heb “his.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “was going and returning.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “run.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “officer of the thousand.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and your brothers, observe with respect to welfare.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and their pledge take.” This probably refers to some type of confirmation that the goods arrived safely. See R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 177. Cf. NIV “bring back some assurance”; NCV “some proof to show me they are all right”; NLT “bring me back a letter from them.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “all the men of Israel.”