1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ¹  treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 4:10

4:10 So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. ²  The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.

1 Samuel 12:18

12:18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the Lord and Samuel.

1 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found ³  the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 18:8

18:8 This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought, ⁵  “They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?”

1 Samuel 18:30--19:1

18:30 ⁶  Then the leaders of the Philistines would march out, and as often as they did so, David achieved more success than all of Saul’s servants. His name was held in high esteem.

Saul Repeatedly Attempts to Take David’s Life

19:1 Then Saul told his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Saul’s son Jonathan liked David very much. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 20:19

20:19 On the third day ⁸  you should go down quickly ⁹  and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. ¹⁰  Stay near the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 21:12

21:12 David thought about what they said ¹¹  and was very afraid of King Achish of Gath.

1 Samuel 25:2

David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal

25:2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; ¹²  he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:15

25:15 These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together ¹³  in the field.

[2:17]  ¹ tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

[4:10]  ² tn Heb “and they fled, each to his tents.”

[14:20]  ³ tn Heb “and look, there was”

[14:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “the sword of a man against his companion, a very great panic.”

[18:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “said.” So also in vv. 11, 17.

[18:30]  ⁵ tc Verse 30 is absent in most LXX mss.

[19:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “delighted greatly in David.”

[20:19]  ⁷ tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).

[20:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.

[20:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “placed these matters in his heart.”

[25:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “great.”

[25:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all the days we walked about with them when we were.”