1 Samuel 18:17

18:17 ¹ Then Saul said to David, “Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior ²  for me and fight the battles of the Lord.” For Saul thought, “There’s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!”

1 Samuel 31:2-4

31:2 The Philistines stayed right on the heels ³  of Saul and his sons. They ⁴  struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua. 31:3 Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ⁵  the archers ⁶  spotted him and wounded him severely.

31:4 Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.

1 Samuel 31:2

31:2 The Philistines stayed right on the heels ⁷  of Saul and his sons. They ⁸  struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.

1 Samuel 17:2-4

17:2 Saul and the Israelite army ⁹  assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against ¹⁰  the Philistines. 17:3 The Philistines were standing on one hill, and the Israelites ¹¹  on another hill, with the valley between them.

17:4 Then a champion ¹²  came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall. ¹³ 

1 Samuel 17:23

17:23 As he was speaking with them, the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines. He spoke the way he usually did, ¹⁴  and David heard it.

1 Samuel 18:14-15

18:14 Now David achieved success in all he did, ¹⁵  for the Lord was with him. 18:15 When Saul saw how very successful he was, he was afraid of him.

Esther 7:10

7:10 So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

Matthew 27:3-5

Judas’ Suicide

27:3 Now when ¹⁶  Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus ¹⁷  had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders, 27:4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!” 27:5 So ¹⁸  Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.

¹ tc Much of the ms evidence for the LXX lacks vv. 17-19.

² tn Heb “son of valor.”

³ tn Heb “stuck close after.”

⁴ tn Heb “the Philistines.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the battle was heavy against Saul.”

⁶ tn Heb “the shooters, men with the bow.”

⁷ tn Heb “stuck close after.”

⁸ tn Heb “the Philistines.”

⁹ tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “to meet.”

¹¹ tn Heb “Israel.”

¹² tn Heb “the man of the space between the two [armies].” See v. 23.

¹³ tc Heb “his height was six cubits and a span” (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV). A cubit was approximately eighteen inches, a span nine inches. So, according to the Hebrew tradition, Goliath was about nine feet, nine inches tall (cf. NIV, CEV, NLT “over nine feet”; NCV “nine feet, four inches”; TEV “nearly 3 metres”). However, some Greek witnesses, Josephus, and a manuscript of 1 Samuel from Qumran read “four cubits and a span” here, that is, about six feet, nine inches (cf. NAB “six and a half feet”). This seems more reasonable; it is likely that Goliath’s height was exaggerated as the story was retold. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 286, 291.

¹⁴ tn Heb “according to these words.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “in all his ways.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “Then when.” Here τότε (tote) has been translated as “now” to indicate a somewhat parenthetical interlude in the sequence of events.

¹⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the leaders’ response to Judas.