1 Samuel 17:12

17:12 ¹ Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ²  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ³ 

1 Samuel 23:23

23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. ⁴  Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him ⁵  among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ⁶  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ⁷  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

¹ tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

² map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

³ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”

⁴ tn Heb “established.”

⁵ tn Heb “I will search him out.”

⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”