1 Samuel 10:2

10:2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! ¹  He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’

1 Samuel 14:45

14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. ² 

1 Samuel 17:28

17:28 When David’s ³  oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry ⁴  with David and said, “Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! ⁵  You have come down here to watch the battle!”

1 Samuel 25:39

25:39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praised be the Lord who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! ⁶  The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” ⁷  Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.

1 Samuel 26:19

26:19 So let my lord the king now listen to the words of his servant. If the Lord has incited you against me, may he take delight in ⁸  an offering. But if men have instigated this, ⁹  may they be cursed before the Lord! For they have driven me away this day from being united with the Lord’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go on, serve other gods!’

1 Samuel 29:4

29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said ¹⁰  to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become ¹¹  our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? ¹² 

1 Samuel 30:22

30:22 But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Since they didn’t go with us, ¹³  we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”

[10:2]  ¹ sn In the Hebrew text the pronoun you is plural, suggesting that Saul’s father was concerned about his son and the servant who accompanied him.

[14:45]  ² tn Heb “and he did not die.”

[17:28]  ³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “the anger of Eliab became hot.”

[17:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “the wickedness of your heart.”

[25:39]  ⁴ tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”

[25:39]  ⁵ tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the Lord has turned back on his head.”

[26:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “may he smell.” The implication is that Saul should seek to appease God, for such divine instigation to evil would a sign of God’s disfavor. For a fuller discussion of this passage see R. B. Chisholm, Jr., “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 19-21.

[26:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “but if the sons of men.”

[29:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”

[29:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “so that he might not become.”

[29:4]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.

[30:22]  ⁷ tc Heb “with me.” The singular is used rather than the plural because the group is being treated as a singular entity, in keeping with Hebrew idiom. It is not necessary to read “with us,” rather than the MT “with me,” although the plural can be found here in a few medieval Hebrew mss. See also the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate, although these versions may simply reflect an understanding of the idiom as found in the MT rather than a different textual reading.