1 Samuel 14:48

14:48 He fought bravely, striking down the Amalekites and delivering Israel from the hand of its enemies. ¹ 

1 Samuel 15:7

15:7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to ²  Shur, which is next to Egypt.

1 Samuel 6:19

6:19 But the Lord ³  struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord; he struck down 50,070 ⁴  of the men. The people grieved because the Lord had struck the people with a hard blow.

1 Samuel 5:6

5:6 The Lord attacked ⁵  the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of ⁶  both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 13:3

13:3 Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost ⁸  that was at Geba and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul alerted ⁹  all the land saying, “Let the Hebrews pay attention!”

1 Samuel 17:50

17:50 ¹⁰ David prevailed over the Philistine with just the sling and the stone. He struck down the Philistine and killed him. David did not even have a sword in his hand. ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 19:8

19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly ¹²  and they ran away from him.

1 Samuel 19:10

19:10 Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. ¹³  David escaped quickly ¹⁴  that night.

1 Samuel 24:5

24:5 Afterward David’s conscience bothered him ¹⁵  because he had cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 5:9

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked ¹⁶  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city ¹⁷  with sores. ¹⁸ 

1 Samuel 17:49

17:49 David reached his hand into the bag and took out a stone. He slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank deeply into his forehead, and he fell down with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 18:27

18:27 when David, along with his men, went out ¹⁹  and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

1 Samuel 19:5

19:5 He risked his life ²⁰  when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”

1 Samuel 23:5

23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. ²¹  David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

¹ tn Heb “plunderers.”

² tn Heb “[as] you enter.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tc The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew mss lack “50,000,” reading simply “70” instead. However, there does not seem to be sufficient external evidence to warrant reading 70 rather than 50,070, although that is done by a number of recent translations (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). The present translation (reluctantly) follows the MT and the ancient versions here.

⁴ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was heavy upon.”

⁵ tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁶ tc The LXX and Vulgate add the following: “And mice multiplied in their land, and the terror of death was throughout the entire city.”

⁵ tn Or perhaps “struck down the Philistine official.” See the note at 1 Sam 10:5. Cf. TEV “killed the Philistine commander.”

⁶ tn Heb “blew the ram’s horn in.”

⁶ tc Most LXX mss lack v. 50.

⁷ tn Verse 50 is a summary statement; v. 51 gives a more detailed account of how David killed the Philistine.

⁷ tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”

⁸ tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”

⁹ tn Heb “fled and escaped.”

⁹ tn Heb “the heart of David struck him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

¹² tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

¹¹ tn Heb “arose and went.”

¹² tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”

¹³ tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”