1 Samuel 10:5

10:5 Afterward you will go to Gibeah of God, where there are Philistine officials. ¹  When you enter the town, you will meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place. They will have harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.

1 Samuel 16:23

16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone. ² 

1 Samuel 18:10

18:10 The next day an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul and he prophesied within his house. Now David was playing the lyre ³  that day. There was a spear in Saul’s hand,

1 Samuel 18:1

Saul Comes to Fear David

18:1 When David ⁴  had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. ⁵  Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 25:2-3

David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal

25:2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; ⁷  he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. 25:3 The man’s name was Nabal, ⁸  and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was both wise ⁹  and beautiful, but the man was harsh and his deeds were evil. He was a Calebite.

Ephesians 5:18-19

5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, which ¹⁰  is debauchery, ¹¹  but be filled by the Spirit, ¹²  5:19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music ¹³  in ¹⁴  your hearts to the Lord,

[10:5]  ¹ tn Or “sentries.” Some translate “outpost” (NIV) or “garrison” (NAB, NRSV, NLT) here (see 1 Sam 13:3). The noun is plural in the Hebrew text, but the LXX and other ancient witnesses read a singular noun here.

[16:23]  ² tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”

[18:10]  ³ tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”

[18:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”

[18:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “like his [own] soul.”

[25:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “great.”

[25:3]  ⁸ sn The name נָבָל (Nabal) means “foolish” or “senseless” in Hebrew, and as an adjective the word is used especially of persons who have no perception of ethical or religious claims. It is an apt name for this character, who certainly typifies such behavior.

[25:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “good of insight”; KJV “of good understanding”; NAB, NIV, TEV “intelligent”; NRSV “clever.”

[5:18]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “in which.”

[5:18]  ¹¹ tn Or “dissipation.” See BDAG 148 s.v. ἀσωτία.

[5:18]  ¹² tn Many have taken ἐν πνεύματι (en pneumati) as indicating content, i.e., one is to be filled with the Spirit. ExSyn 375 states, “There are no other examples in biblical Greek in which ἐν + the dative after πληρόω indicates content. Further, the parallel with οἴνῳ as well as the common grammatical category of means suggest that the idea intended is that believers are to be filled by means of the [Holy] Spirit. If so there seems to be an unnamed agent. The meaning of this text can only be fully appreciated in light of the πληρόω language in Ephesians. Always the term is used in connection with a member of the Trinity. Three considerations seem to be key: (1) In Eph 3:19 the ‘hinge’ prayer introducing the last half of the letter makes a request that the believers ‘be filled with all the fullness of God’ (πληρωθῆτε εἰς πᾶν πλήρωμα τοῦ θεοῦ). The explicit content of πληρόω is thus God’s fullness (probably a reference to his moral attributes). (2) In 4:10 Christ is said to be the agent of filling (with v. 11 adding the specifics of his giving spiritual gifts). (3) The author then brings his argument to a crescendo in 5:18: Believers are to be filled by Christ by means of the Spirit with the content of the fullness of God.”

[5:19]  ¹³ tn See BDAG 1096 s.v. ψάλλω.

[5:19]  ¹⁴ tn Or “with.”