1 Samuel 22:17

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers ¹  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ²  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ³  the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:10

24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity ⁴  on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ ⁵ 

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ⁶  David and his men in the region of ⁷  the rocks of the mountain goats. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 18:12

18:12 So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.

Acts 12:1

James is Killed and Peter Imprisoned

12:1 About that time King Herod ⁹  laid hands on ¹⁰  some from the church to harm them. ¹¹ 

[22:17]  ¹ tn Heb “runners.”

[22:17]  ² tn Heb “their hand is.”

[22:17]  ³ tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

[24:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.

[24:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “anointed.”

[24:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ⁸ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

[12:1]  ⁹ sn King Herod was Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod I (Herod the Great). His mediocre career is summarized in Josephus, Ant. 18-19. This event took place in a.d. 42 or 43.

[12:1]  ¹⁰ tn Or “King Herod had some from the church arrested.”

[12:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “to cause them injury.”