1 Samuel 24:11

24:11 Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning ¹  evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.

1 Samuel 29:6

29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you ²  serving ³  with me in the army. ⁴  I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion ⁵  of the leaders, you are not reliable. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 30:22

30:22 But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Since they didn’t go with us, ⁷  we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”

[24:11]  ¹ tn Heb “there is not in my hand.”

[29:6]  ² tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.

[29:6]  ³ tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.

[29:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “camp.”

[29:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “eyes.”

[29:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “good.”

[30:22]  ³ tc Heb “with me.” The singular is used rather than the plural because the group is being treated as a singular entity, in keeping with Hebrew idiom. It is not necessary to read “with us,” rather than the MT “with me,” although the plural can be found here in a few medieval Hebrew mss. See also the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate, although these versions may simply reflect an understanding of the idiom as found in the MT rather than a different textual reading.