1 Samuel 14:34

14:34 Then Saul said, “Scatter out among the army and say to them, ‘Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don’t sin against the Lord by eating the blood.” So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there. ¹ 

1 Samuel 14:36

14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout ²  them until the break of day. ³  We won’t leave any of them alive!” ⁴  They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” ⁵  But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

1 Samuel 15:11

15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

1 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself ⁶  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 19:24

19:24 He even stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel. He lay there ⁷  naked all that day and night. (For that reason it is asked, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”)

1 Samuel 26:7

26:7 So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.

1 Samuel 28:8

28:8 So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing and left, accompanied by two of his men. They came to the woman at night and said, “Use your ritual pit to conjure up for me the one I tell you.” ⁸ 

1 Samuel 28:20

28:20 Saul quickly fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words. He was completely drained of energy, ⁹  not having eaten anything ¹⁰  all that day and night.

1 Samuel 30:12

30:12 They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, ¹¹  for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

1 Samuel 31:12

31:12 all their warriors set out and traveled throughout the night. They took Saul’s corpse and the corpses of his sons from the city wall of Beth Shan and went ¹²  to Jabesh, where they burned them.

¹ tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”

² tn Heb “plunder.”

³ tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”

⁴ tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”

⁵ tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.

³ tn Heb “your life.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he fell down.”

⁵ tn Heb “Use divination for me with the ritual pit and bring up for me the one whom I say to you.”

⁶ tn Heb “also there was no strength in him.”

⁷ tn Heb “food.”

⁷ tn Heb “his spirit returned to him.”

⁸ tc The translation follows the MT, which vocalizes the verb as a Qal. The LXX, however, treats the verb as a Hiphil, “they brought.”