1 Samuel 20:22

20:22 But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ ¹  get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 25:32

25:32 Then David said to Abigail, “Praised ²  be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!

1 Samuel 21:2

21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ ³  I have told my soldiers ⁴  to wait at a certain place. ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “from you and onward.”

² tn Heb “blessed” (also in vv. 33, 39).

³ tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

⁴ tn Heb “servants.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.