1 Samuel 22:17

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers 1  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided 2  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm 3  the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:10

24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity 4  on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ 5 

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find 6  David and his men in the region of 7  the rocks of the mountain goats. 8 

1 Samuel 18:12

18:12 So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.

Acts 12:1

James is Killed and Peter Imprisoned

12:1 About that time King Herod 9  laid hands on 10  some from the church to harm them. 11 

1 tn Heb “runners.”

2 tn Heb “their hand is.”

3 tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

4 tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.

5 tn Heb “anointed.”

6 tn Heb “to search [for].”

7 tn Heb “upon the face of.”

8 tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

9 sn King Herod was Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod I (Herod the Great). His mediocre career is summarized in Josephus, Ant. 18-19. This event took place in a.d. 42 or 43.

10 tn Or “King Herod had some from the church arrested.”

11 tn Or “to cause them injury.”