1 Samuel 16:21

16:21 David came to Saul and stood before him. Saul liked him a great deal, ¹  and he became his armor bearer.

1 Samuel 17:54

17:54 David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, ²  and he put Goliath’s ³  weapons in his tent.

1 Samuel 31:6

31:6 So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men died together that day.

1 Samuel 31:10

31:10 They placed Saul’s armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths ⁴  and hung his corpse on the city wall of Beth Shan.

¹ tn Heb “he loved him.”

² map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

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

³ sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.