14:11 When they 1 made themselves known to the Philistine garrison, the Philistines said, “Look! The Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they hid themselves.”
23:19 Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?
Now David and his men were sitting in the recesses of the cave.
42:22 But these people are looted and plundered;
all of them are trapped in pits 4
and held captive 5 in prisons.
They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them;
they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, “Bring that back!” 6
1 tn Heb “the two of them.”
2 tn Heb “to cover his feet,” an idiom (euphemism) for relieving oneself (cf. NAB “to ease nature”).
3 tn Grk “may mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.”
4 tc The Hebrew text has בַּחוּרִים (bakhurim, “young men”), but the text should be emended to בְּהוֹרִים (bÿhorim, “in holes”).
5 tn Heb “and made to be hidden”; NAB, NASB, NIV, TEV “hidden away in prisons.”
6 tn Heb “they became loot and there was no one rescuing, plunder and there was no one saying, ‘Bring back’.”