1 Samuel 18:25

18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ¹  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

1 Samuel 19:7

19:7 Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he had done formerly. ² 

1 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself ³  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 20:42

20:42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the Lord saying, ‘The Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”

David Goes to Nob

(21:1)

⁴ Then David ⁵  got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.

1 Samuel 25:8

25:8 Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come ⁶  at the time of a holiday. Please provide us – your servants ⁷  and your son David – with whatever you can spare.” ⁸ 

1 Samuel 30:6

30:6 David was very upset, for the men ⁹  were thinking of stoning him; ¹⁰  each man grieved bitterly ¹¹  over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.

[18:25]  ¹ tn Heb “the king’s.”

[19:7]  ² tn Heb “and he was before him as before.”

[19:11]  ³ tn Heb “your life.”

[20:42]  ⁴ sn Beginning with 20:42b, the verse numbers through 21:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 20:42b ET = 21:1 HT, 21:1 ET = 21:2 HT, 21:2 ET = 21:3 HT, etc., through 21:15 ET = 21:16 HT. With 22:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[20:42]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:8]  ⁵ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בָּאנוּ (ba’nu, “we have come”) rather than the MT’s בָּנוּ (banu, “we have built”).

[25:8]  ⁶ tn This refers to the ten servants sent by David.

[25:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “whatever your hand will find.”

[30:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “people.”

[30:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “said to stone him.”

[30:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”