1 Samuel 17:12

17:12 ¹ Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ²  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ³ 

1 Samuel 23:23

23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. ⁴  Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him ⁵  among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ⁶  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ⁷  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

[17:12]  ¹ tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

[17:12]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[17:12]  ³ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”

[23:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “established.”

[23:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will search him out.”

[30:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”