1 Samuel 7:6

7:6 After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed ¹  there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel led ²  the people of Israel at Mizpah.

1 Samuel 22:2

22:2 All those who were in trouble or owed someone money or were discontented ³  gathered around ⁴  him, and he became their leader. He had about four hundred men with him.

1 Samuel 28:1

The Witch of Endor

28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops ⁵  for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “said.”

² tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”

³ tn Heb “bitter of soul.”

⁴ tn Heb “to.”

⁵ tn Heb “their camps.”

⁶ tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.