1 Samuel 25:4

25:4 When David heard in the desert that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

1 Samuel 8:21

8:21 So Samuel listened to everything the people said and then reported it to the Lord. ¹ 

1 Samuel 17:11

17:11 When Saul and all the Israelites ²  heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.

1 Samuel 19:6

19:6 Saul accepted Jonathan’s advice ³  and took an oath, “As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death.”

1 Samuel 4:14

4:14 When Eli heard the outcry, ⁴  he said, “What is this commotion?” ⁵  The man quickly came and told Eli.

1 Samuel 15:4

15:4 So Saul assembled ⁶  the army ⁷  and mustered them at Telaim. There were 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

1 Samuel 17:23

17:23 As he was speaking with them, the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines. He spoke the way he usually did, ⁸  and David heard it.

1 Samuel 23:8

23:8 So Saul mustered all his army to go down to Keilah and besiege David and his men. ⁹ 

1 Samuel 23:25

23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ¹⁰  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

1 Samuel 28:23

28:23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged ¹¹  him to eat, so he gave in. ¹²  He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.

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. ¹³  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 17:28

17:28 When David’s ¹⁴  oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry ¹⁵  with David and said, “Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! ¹⁶  You have come down here to watch the battle!”

1 Samuel 25:39

25:39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praised be the Lord who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! ¹⁷  The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” ¹⁸  Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.

[8:21]  ¹ tn Heb “and Samuel heard all the words of the people and he spoke them into the ears of the Lord.”

[17:11]  ¹ tn Heb “all Israel.”

[19:6]  ¹ tn Heb “and Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan.”

[4:14]  ¹ tn Heb “the sound of the cry.”

[4:14]  ² tn Heb “the sound of this commotion.”

[15:4]  ¹ tn Heb “caused the people to hear.”

[15:4]  ² tn Heb “people.”

[17:23]  ¹ tn Heb “according to these words.”

[23:8]  ¹ tn Heb “So Saul mustered all his army for battle to go down to Keilah to besiege against David and his men.”

[23:25]  ¹ tn Heb “to search.”

[28:23]  ¹ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וַיִּפְצְרוּ (vayyiftseru, “and they pressed”; from the root פצר, psr) rather than the MT’s וַיִּפְרְצוּ (vayyifretsu, “and they broke forth”; from the root פרצ, prs).

[28:23]  ² tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”

[22:6]  ¹ tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”

[17:28]  ¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:28]  ² tn Heb “the anger of Eliab became hot.”

[17:28]  ³ tn Heb “the wickedness of your heart.”

[25:39]  ¹ tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”

[25:39]  ² tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the Lord has turned back on his head.”