1 Samuel 16:14

David Appears before Saul

16:14 Now the Spirit of the Lord had turned away from Saul, and an evil spirit 1  from the Lord tormented him.

1 Samuel 17:11

17:11 When Saul and all the Israelites 2  heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.

1 Samuel 18:29

18:29 Saul became even more afraid of him. 3  Saul continued to be at odds with David from then on. 4 

1 Samuel 23:15

23:15 David realized 5  that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.

1 tn Or “an injurious spirit”; cf. NLT “a tormenting spirit.” The phrase need not refer to an evil, demonic spirit. The Hebrew word translated “evil” may refer to the character of the spirit or to its effect upon Saul. If the latter, another translation option might be “a mischief-making spirit.”

2 tn Heb “all Israel.”

3 tn Heb “of David.” In the translation the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun for stylistic reasons.

4 tc The final sentence of v. 29 is absent in most LXX mss.

4 tn Heb “saw.”