1 Samuel 14:28

14:28 Then someone from the army informed him, “Your father put the army under a strict oath ¹  saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.”

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. ²  When he arrived in Bethlehem, ³  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They ⁴  said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 16:20

16:20 So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat ⁵  and sent them to Saul with ⁶  his son David.

1 Samuel 17:17

17:17 Jesse said to his son David, “Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly ⁷  to the camp to your brothers.

1 Samuel 28:22

28:22 Now it’s your turn to listen to your servant! Let me set before you a bit of bread so that you can eat. When you regain your strength, you can go on your way.”

1 Samuel 30:11

30:11 Then they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink.

[14:28]  ¹ 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.

[16:4]  ² tn Heb “said.”

[16:4]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:4]  ⁴ tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

[16:20]  ³ tn Heb “a kid of the goats.”

[16:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[17:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “run.”