1 Samuel 6:16

6:16 The five leaders of the Philistines watched what was happening and then returned to Ekron on the same day.

1 Samuel 16:17

16:17 So Saul said to his servants, “Find ¹  me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”

1 Samuel 12:24

12:24 However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!

1 Samuel 13:6

13:6 The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, ²  and cisterns.

1 Samuel 14:29

14:29 Then Jonathan said, “My father has caused trouble for the land. See how my eyes gleamed ³  when I tasted just a little of this honey.

1 Samuel 6:19

6:19 But the Lord ⁴  struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord; he struck down 50,070 ⁵  of the men. The people grieved because the Lord had struck the people with a hard blow.

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 ⁶  on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “see.”

¹ tn Or perhaps “vaults.” This rare term also occurs in Judg 9:46, 49. Cf. KJV “high places”; ASV “coverts”; NAB “caverns”; NASB “cellars”; NIV, NCV, TEV “pits”; NRSV, NLT “tombs.”

¹ tc The LXX reads “saw.” See v. 27.

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tc The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew mss lack “50,000,” reading simply “70” instead. However, there does not seem to be sufficient external evidence to warrant reading 70 rather than 50,070, although that is done by a number of recent translations (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). The present translation (reluctantly) follows the MT and the ancient versions here.

¹ tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.

² tn Heb “anointed.”