1 Samuel 5:11

5:11 So they assembled¹ all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us² and our³ people!” The terror⁴ of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there.⁵

1 Samuel 7:3

7:3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth.⁶ Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you⁷ from the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 10:24

10:24 Then Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? Indeed, there is no one like him among all the people!” All the people shouted out, “Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 11:3

11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.”

1 Samuel 11:7

11:7 He took a pair⁸ of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army.⁹

1 Samuel 12:20

12:20 Then Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed sinned.¹⁰ However, don’t turn aside from the Lord. Serve the Lord with all your heart.

1 Samuel 14:47

14:47 After Saul had secured his royal position over Israel, he fought against all their¹¹ enemies on all sides – the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. In every direction that he turned he was victorious.¹²

1 Samuel 18:5

18:5 On every mission on which Saul sent him, David achieved success. So Saul appointed him over the men of war. This pleased not only all the army, but also Saul’s servants.¹³

1 Samuel 22:22

22:22 Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I am guilty¹⁴ of all the deaths in your father’s house!

1 Samuel 23:23

23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information.¹⁵ Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him¹⁶ among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 27:1

David Aligns Himself with the Philistines

27:1 David thought to himself,¹⁷ “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David¹⁸ down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot¹⁹ they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

¹tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

²tn Heb “me.”

³tn Heb “my.”

⁴tn Or “panic.”

⁵tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”

⁶tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity.

⁷tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

¹¹tn Heb “yoke.”

¹²tn Heb “like one man.”

¹⁶tn Heb “you have done all this evil.”

²¹tn Heb “his,” which could refer to Israel or to Saul.

²²tc The translation follows the LXX (“he was delivered”), rather than the MT, which reads, “he acted wickedly.”

²⁶tn Heb “it was good in the eyes of all the people and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul.”

³¹tc The translation follows the LXX, which reads “I am guilty,” rather than the MT, which has “I have turned.”

³⁶tn Heb “established.”

³⁷tn Heb “I will search him out.”

⁴¹tn Heb “said to his heart.”

⁴⁶tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴⁷tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”