1 Samuel 23:19-23

23:19 Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon? 23:20 Now at your own discretion, ¹  O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”

23:21 Saul replied, “May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me. 23:22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely ²  where he is ³  and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning. 23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. ⁴  Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him ⁵  among all the thousands of Judah.”

Matthew 23:15

23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law ⁶  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ⁷  and when you get one, ⁸  you make him twice as much a child of hell ⁹  as yourselves!

Matthew 26:3-4

26:3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. 26:4 They ¹⁰  planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

[23:20]  ¹ tn Heb “to all the desire of your soul.”

[23:22]  ² tn Heb “know and see.” The expression is a hendiadys. See also v. 23.

[23:22]  ³ tn Heb “his place where his foot is.”

[23:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “established.”

[23:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will search him out.”

[23:15]  ⁶ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:15]  ⁷ tn Or “one proselyte.”

[23:15]  ⁸ tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”

[23:15]  ⁹ tn Grk “a son of Gehenna.” Expressions constructed with υἱός (Juios) followed by a genitive of class or kind denote a person belonging to the class or kind specified by the following genitive (L&N 9.4). Thus the phrase here means “a person who belongs to hell.”

[26:4]  ¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.