1 Samuel 14:36

14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout ¹  them until the break of day. ²  We won’t leave any of them alive!” ³  They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” ⁴  But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

1 Samuel 18:21

18:21 Saul said, “I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.” ⁵ 

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.” ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “plunder.”

² tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”

³ tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”

⁴ tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.

⁵ tc The final sentence of v. 21 is absent in most LXX mss.

⁹ tn Heb “Use divination for me with the ritual pit and bring up for me the one whom I say to you.”