8:5 They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead 1 us, just like all the other nations have.”
1 Samuel 9:12
9:12 They replied, “Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.
1 Samuel 13:12
13:12 I thought, 2 ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated 3 to offer the burnt offering.”
1 Samuel 14:30
14:30 Certainly if the army had eaten some of the enemies’ provisions that they came across today, would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”
1 Samuel 15:30
15:30 Saul 4 again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”
1 tnHeb “judge” (also in v. 6).
2 tnHeb “said.”
3 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”
3 tnHeb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.