1 Samuel 2:22

2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel ¹  and how they used to have sex with ²  the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 6:15

6:15 The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.

1 Samuel 9:3

9:3 The donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, ³  so Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go ⁴  look for the donkeys.” ⁵ 

1 Samuel 9:7

9:7 So Saul said to his servant, “All right, ⁶  we can go. But what can we bring the man, since the food in our bags is used up? We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”

1 Samuel 12:14

12:14 If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him ⁷  and not rebelling against what he says, ⁸  and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well. ⁹ 

1 Samuel 13:22

13:22 So on the day of the battle no sword or spear was to be found in the hand of anyone in the army that was with Saul and Jonathan. No one but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

1 Samuel 21:1

21:1 (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met ¹⁰  David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”

1 Samuel 22:3

22:3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay ¹¹  with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”

1 Samuel 22:6

Saul Executes the Priests

22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. ¹²  Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.

1 Samuel 23:23

23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. ¹³  Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him ¹⁴  among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 25:29

25:29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag ¹⁵  of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!

1 Samuel 26:6

26:6 David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” Abishai replied, “I will go down with you.”

1 Samuel 28:1

The Witch of Endor

28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops ¹⁶  for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” ¹⁷ 

1 Samuel 30:21

30:21 Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, ¹⁸  those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

1 Samuel 30:23

30:23 But David said, “No! You shouldn’t do this, my brothers. Look at what the Lord has given us! ¹⁹  He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.

[2:22]  ¹ tn Heb “to all Israel.”

[2:22]  ² tn Heb “lie with.”

[9:3]  ³ tn Heb “became lost.”

[9:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and arise, go.”

[9:3]  ⁵ tc The Syriac Peshitta includes the following words: “So Saul arose and went out. He took with him one of the boys and went out to look for his father’s donkeys.”

[9:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “look.”

[12:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “and you listen to his voice.”

[12:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.” So also in v. 15.

[12:14]  ⁹ tn The words “all will be well” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[21:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “trembled to meet.”

[22:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “go forth.”

[22:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”

[23:23]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “established.”

[23:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “I will search him out.”

[25:29]  ¹⁷ tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”

[28:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “their camps.”

[28:1]  ²⁰ tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.

[30:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“him”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[30:23]  ²³ tc This clause is difficult in the MT. The present translation accepts the text as found in the MT and understands this clause to be elliptical, with an understood verb such as “look” or “consider.” On the other hand, the LXX seems to reflect a slightly different Hebrew text, reading “after” where the MT has “my brothers.” The Greek translation yields the following translation: “You should not do this after the Lord has delivered us.” Although the Greek reading should be taken seriously, it seems better to follow the MT here.