1 Samuel 16:21

16:21 David came to Saul and stood before him. Saul liked him a great deal, ¹  and he became his armor bearer.

1 Samuel 26:13

26:13 Then David crossed to the other side and stood on the top of the hill some distance away; there was a considerable distance between them.

1 Samuel 17:8

17:8 Goliath ²  stood and called to Israel’s troops, ³  “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose ⁴  for yourselves a man so he may come down ⁵  to me!

1 Samuel 17:51

17:51 David ran and stood over the Philistine. He grabbed Goliath’s ⁶  sword, drew it from its sheath, ⁷  killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they ran away.

[16:21]  ¹ tn Heb “he loved him.”

[17:8]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:8]  ³ tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”

[17:8]  ⁴ tc The translation follows the ancient versions in reading “choose,” (from the root בחר, bkhr), rather than the MT. The verb in MT (ברה, brh) elsewhere means “to eat food”; the sense of “to choose,” required here by the context, is not attested for this root. The MT apparently reflects an early scribal error.

[17:8]  ⁵ tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.

[17:51]  ³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:51]  ⁴ tc Most LXX mss lack the words “drew it from its sheath.”