1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan ¹  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing ²  large or small without making me aware of it. ³  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

1 Samuel 21:2

21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ ⁴  I have told my soldiers ⁵  to wait at a certain place. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 24:6

24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, ⁷  by extending my hand against him. After all, ⁸  he is the Lord’s chosen one.” ⁹ 

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ¹⁰  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ¹¹  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

1 Samuel 28:18

28:18 Since you did not obey the Lord ¹²  and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the Lord has done this thing to you today.

[20:2]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ² tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading “he will not do,” rather than the Kethib of the MT (“do to him”).

[20:2]  ³ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

[21:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

[21:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “servants.”

[21:2]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.

[24:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “anointed.”

[24:6]  ⁸ tn Or “for.”

[24:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “anointed.”

[26:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”

[28:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord.”