1 Samuel 12:11

12:11 So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, ¹  Barak, ²  Jephthah, and Samuel, ³  and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.

1 Samuel 31:9

31:9 They cut off Saul’s ⁴  head and stripped him of his armor. They sent messengers to announce the news in the temple of their idols and among their people throughout the surrounding land of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 14:21

14:21 The Hebrews who had earlier gone over to the Philistine side ⁵  joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

1 Samuel 14:47

14:47 After Saul had secured his royal position over Israel, he fought against all their ⁶  enemies on all sides – the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. In every direction that he turned he was victorious. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 26:5

26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.

1 Samuel 26:7

26:7 So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.

[12:11]  ¹ sn Jerub-Baal (יְרֻבַּעַל) is also known as Gideon (see Judg 6:32). The Book of Judges uses both names for him.

[12:11]  ² tc The MT has “Bedan” (בְּדָן) here (cf. KJV, NASB, CEV). But a deliverer by this name is not elsewhere mentioned in the OT. The translation follows the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “Barak.”

[12:11]  ³ tc In the ancient versions there is some confusion with regard to these names, both with regard to the particular names selected for mention and with regard to the order in which they are listed. For example, the LXX has “Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel.” But the Targum has “Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, and Samuel,” while the Syriac Peshitta has “Deborah, Barak, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson.”

[31:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity (likewise in the following verse).

[14:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the Hebrews were to the Philistines formerly, who went up with them in the camp all around.”

[14:47]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his,” which could refer to Israel or to Saul.

[14:47]  ¹¹ tc The translation follows the LXX (“he was delivered”), rather than the MT, which reads, “he acted wickedly.”