1 Samuel 21:9

David Goes to Gath

21:9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, is wrapped in a garment behind the ephod. If you wish, take it for yourself. Other than that, there’s nothing here.” David said, “There’s nothing like it! Give it to 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.’ ¹  I have told my soldiers ²  to wait at a certain place. ³ 

1 Samuel 8:7

8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. ⁴  For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

¹ tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

² tn Heb “servants.”

³ 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.

⁴ tn Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”