1 Samuel 2:14

2:14 He would jab it into the basin, kettle, caldron, or pot, and everything that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they used to do to all the Israelites¹ when they came there to Shiloh.

1 Samuel 4:13

4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of² the road, for he was very worried³ about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report,⁴ the whole city cried out.

1 Samuel 5:9

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked⁵ that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city⁶ with sores.⁷

1 Samuel 11:11

11:11 The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them⁸ down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.

1 Samuel 15:3

15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare⁹ them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

1 Samuel 17:25-26

17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so¹⁰ to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”

17:26 David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation?¹¹ For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17:46

17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

1 Samuel 17:49

17:49 David reached his hand into the bag and took out a stone. He slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank deeply into his forehead, and he fell down with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 18:6

18:6 When the men¹² arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments.¹³

1 Samuel 18:27

18:27 when David, along with his men, went out¹⁴ and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

1 Samuel 19:5

19:5 He risked his life¹⁵ when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”

1 Samuel 21:11

21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,

‘Saul struck down his thousands,

But David his tens of thousands’?”

1 Samuel 23:5

23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them.¹⁶ David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 26:8

26:8 Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me drive the spear¹⁷ right through him into the ground with one swift jab!¹⁸ A second jab won’t be necessary!”

1 Samuel 30:1

David Defeats the Amalekites

30:1 On the third day David and his men came to Ziklag. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it.¹⁹

1 Samuel 30:17

30:17 But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels.²⁰

¹tn Heb “to all Israel.”

²tc Read with many medieval Hebrew mss, the Qere, and much versional evidence יַד (yad, “hand”) rather than MT יַךְ (yakh).

³tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”

⁴tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”

³tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

⁴tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

⁵tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

⁴tn Heb “Ammon.” By metonymy the name “Ammon” is used collectively for the soldiers in the Ammonite army.

⁵tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

⁶tn Heb “he is coming up.”

⁷tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”

⁸tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.

⁹tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”

⁹tn Heb “arose and went.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”

¹¹tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”

¹²tn Here “the spear” almost certainly refers to Saul’s own spear, which according to the previous verse was stuck into the ground beside him as he slept. This is reflected in a number of English versions: TEV, CEV “his own spear”; NLT “that spear.” Cf. NIV, NCV “my spear,” in which case Abishai refers to his own spear rather than Saul’s, but this is unlikely since (1) Abishai would probably not have carried a spear along since such a weapon would be unwieldy when sneaking into the enemy camp; and (2) this would not explain the mention of Saul’s own spear stuck in the ground beside him in the previous verse.

¹³tn Heb “let me strike him with the spear and into the ground one time.”

¹³tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”

¹⁴tn Heb “who rode on camels and fled.”