1 Samuel 11:4

11:4 When the messengers went to Gibeah (where Saul lived) ¹  and informed the people of these matters, all the people wept loudly. ² 

1 Samuel 13:6

13:6 The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, ³  and cisterns.

1 Samuel 14:26

14:26 When the army entered the forest, they saw ⁴  the honey flowing, but no one ate any of it, ⁵  for the army was afraid of the oath.

1 Samuel 14:28

14:28 Then someone from the army informed him, “Your father put the army under a strict oath ⁶  saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.”

1 Samuel 14:32

14:32 So the army rushed greedily on ⁷  the ⁸  plunder, confiscating sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them right on the ground, and the army ate them blood and all.

[11:4]  ¹ tn Heb “to Gibeah of Saul.”

[11:4]  ² tn Heb “lifted their voice and wept.”

[13:6]  ³ tn Or perhaps “vaults.” This rare term also occurs in Judg 9:46, 49. Cf. KJV “high places”; ASV “coverts”; NAB “caverns”; NASB “cellars”; NIV, NCV, TEV “pits”; NRSV, NLT “tombs.”

[14:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the army entered the forest, and look!”

[14:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “and there was no one putting his hand to his mouth.”

[14:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “your father surely put the army under an oath.” The infinitive absolute is used before the finite verb to emphasize the solemn nature of the oath.

[14:32]  ⁹ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “and they rushed greedily upon,” rather than the Kethib, “and they did.”

[14:32]  ¹⁰ tc The translation reads with the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss הַשָּׁלָל (hashalal, “the spoil”) rather than following the Kethib reading, שָׁלָל (shalal, “spoil”).