1 Samuel 8:20

8:20 We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us 1  and fight our battles.”

1 Samuel 14:8

14:8 Jonathan replied, “All right! 2  We’ll go over to these men and fight them.

1 Samuel 23:3

23:3 But David’s men said to him, “We are afraid while we are still here in Judah! What will it be like if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

1 Samuel 30:14

30:14 We conducted a raid on the Negev of the Kerethites, on the area of Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb. We burned Ziklag.” 3 

1 Samuel 20:42

20:42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the Lord saying, ‘The Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”

David Goes to Nob
(21:1)

4 Then David 5  got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.

1 tn Heb “and go out before us.”

2 tn Heb “Look!”

3 tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”

4 sn Beginning with 20:42b, the verse numbers through 21:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 20:42b ET = 21:1 HT, 21:1 ET = 21:2 HT, 21:2 ET = 21:3 HT, etc., through 21:15 ET = 21:16 HT. With 22:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

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