1 Samuel 6:5

6:5 You should make images of the sores and images of the mice ¹  that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land. ² 

1 Samuel 21:11

21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,

‘Saul struck down his thousands,

But David his tens of thousands’?”

1 Samuel 27:8

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach ³  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

1 Samuel 28:9

28:9 But the woman said to him, “Look, you are aware of what Saul has done; he has removed ⁴  the mediums and magicians ⁵  from the land! Why are you trapping me ⁶  so you can put me to death?”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ⁷  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ⁸  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

¹ tn Heb “your mice.” A Qumran ms has simply “the mice.”

² tn Heb “Perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.”

³ tn Heb “from where you come.”

⁵ tn Heb “how he has cut off.”

⁶ tn See the note at v. 3.

⁷ tn Heb “my life.”

⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”