2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they 1 treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.
4:10 So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. 3 The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.
14:20 Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found 5 the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords. 6
14:33 Now it was reported to Saul, “Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood.” He said, “All of you have broken the covenant! 7 Roll a large stone over here to me.”
19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly 8 and they ran away from him.
25:2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; 9 he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
28:12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out loudly. 10 The woman said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”
1 tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew
2 tn Heb “shouted [with] a great shout.”
3 tn Heb “and they fled, each to his tents.”
4 tn Heb “on account of his great name.”
5 tn Heb “and look, there was”
6 tn Heb “the sword of a man against his companion, a very great panic.”
6 tn Heb “You have acted deceptively.” In this context the verb refers to violating an agreement, in this case the dietary and sacrificial regulations of the Mosaic law. The verb form is second masculine plural; apparently Saul here addresses those who are eating the animals.
7 tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”
8 tn Heb “great.”
9 tn Heb “in a great voice.”