1 Samuel 5:6

5:6 The Lord attacked ¹  the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of ²  both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. ³ 

1 Samuel 12:9

12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave ⁴  them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s ⁵  army, ⁶  and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

1 Samuel 15:18

15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign ⁷  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you ⁸  have destroyed them.’

1 Samuel 25:15

25:15 These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together ⁹  in the field.

1 Samuel 25:20

25:20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

¹ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was heavy upon.”

² tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³ tc The LXX and Vulgate add the following: “And mice multiplied in their land, and the terror of death was throughout the entire city.”

⁴ tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”

⁵ map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

⁶ tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”

⁷ tn Heb “journey.”

⁸ tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).

¹⁰ tn Heb “all the days we walked about with them when we were.”