1 Samuel 24:4

24:4 David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” ¹  So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 25:39

25:39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praised be the Lord who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! ²  The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” ³  Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.

1 Samuel 29:4

29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said ⁴  to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become ⁵  our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”

² tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”

³ tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the Lord has turned back on his head.”

³ tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”

⁴ tn Heb “so that he might not become.”

⁵ tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.