1 Samuel 16:17

16:17 So Saul said to his servants, “Find me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”

1 Samuel 28:25

28:25 She brought it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and left that same night.

1 Samuel 18:26

18:26 So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired

1 Samuel 19:1

Saul Repeatedly Attempts to Take David’s Life

19:1 Then Saul told his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Saul’s son Jonathan liked David very much.

1 Samuel 21:14

21:14 Achish said to his servants, “Look at this madman! Why did you bring him to me?

1 Samuel 28:23

28:23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged him to eat, so he gave in. He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.

1 Samuel 18:22

18:22 Then Saul instructed his servants, “Tell David secretly, ‘The king is pleased with you, and all his servants like you. So now become the king’s son-in-law.”

1 Samuel 22:6

Saul Executes the Priests

22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.

1 Samuel 28:7

28:7 So Saul instructed his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so that I may go to her and inquire of her.” His servants replied to him, “There is a woman who is a medium in Endor.”


tn Heb “see.”

tn Heb “and it was acceptable in the eyes of David.”

tn Heb “the days were not fulfilled.”

tn Heb “delighted greatly in David.”

tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וַיִּפְצְרוּ (vayyiftseru, “and they pressed”; from the root פצר, psr) rather than the MT’s וַיִּפְרְצוּ (vayyifretsu, “and they broke forth”; from the root פרצ, prs).

tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”

tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”

tn Heb “an owner of a ritual pit.” See the note at v. 3.