1 Samuel 15:7

15:7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to ¹  Shur, which is next to Egypt.

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 17:52

17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. ⁵  They chased the Philistines to the valley ⁶  and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

1 Samuel 27:8

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach ⁷  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

[15:7]  ¹ tn Heb “[as] you enter.”

[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”).

[17:52]  ³ tn Heb “arose and cried out.”

[17:52]  ⁴ tc Most of the LXX ms tradition has here “Gath.”

[27:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “from where you come.”