1 Samuel 2:26

2:26 Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.

1 Samuel 10:26

10:26 Even Saul went to his home in Gibeah. With him went some brave men whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 17:15

17:15 David was going back and forth ¹  from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 17:41

17:41 ² The Philistine kept coming closer to David, with his shield bearer walking in front of him.

1 Samuel 23:18

23:18 When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.

1 Samuel 14:17

14:17 So Saul said to the army that was with him, “Muster the troops and see who is no longer with us.” When they mustered the troops, ³  Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

1 Samuel 14:26

14:26 When the army entered the forest, they saw ⁴  the honey flowing, but no one ate any of it, ⁵  for the army was afraid of the oath.

1 Samuel 17:7

17:7 The shaft ⁶  of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the iron point of his spear weighed six hundred shekels. ⁷  His shield bearer was walking before him.

1 Samuel 6:12

6:12 Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along, mooing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.

1 Samuel 14:3

14:3 Now Ahijah was carrying ⁸  an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.

¹ tn Heb “was going and returning.”

¹ tc Most LXX mss lack v. 41.

¹ tn Heb “and they mustered the troops, and look!”

¹ tn Heb “and the army entered the forest, and look!”

² tn Heb “and there was no one putting his hand to his mouth.”

¹ tn The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “wood,” rather than the “arrow” (the reading of the Kethib).

² sn That is, about fifteen or sixteen pounds.

¹ tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).