1 Samuel 9:20

9:20 Don’t be concerned ¹  about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” ² 

1 Samuel 10:14

10:14 Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” Saul ³  replied, “To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, ⁴  we went to Samuel.”

1 Samuel 18:6

18:6 When the men ⁵  arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments. ⁶ 

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 ⁷  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

¹ tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”

² tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “And we saw that they were not.”

⁵ tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.

⁶ tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”

⁷ tn Heb “from where you come.”