1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ¹  “He is really hated ²  among his own people in ³  Israel! From now on ⁴  he will be my servant.”

1 Samuel 31:1

The Death of Saul

31:1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel. The men of Israel fled from the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

1 Samuel 3:11

3:11 The Lord said to Samuel, “Look! I am about to do something in Israel; ⁵  when anyone hears about it, both of his ears will tingle.

1 Samuel 9:9

9:9 (Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say, “Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.)

1 Samuel 11:13

11:13 But Saul said, “No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!”

1 Samuel 18:18

18:18 David said to Saul, “Who am I? Who are my relatives or the clan of my father ⁶  in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”

1 Samuel 7:10

7:10 As Samuel was offering burnt offerings, the Philistines approached to do battle with Israel. ⁷  But on that day the Lord thundered loudly against the Philistines. He caused them to panic, and they were defeated by ⁸  Israel.

1 Samuel 17:25

17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so ⁹  to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”

1 Samuel 26:15

26:15 David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? After all, who is like you in Israel? Why then haven’t you protected your lord the king? One of the soldiers came to kill your lord the king.

1 Samuel 28:1

The Witch of Endor

28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops ¹⁰  for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 14:45

14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. ¹² 

[27:12]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[27:12]  ² tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

[27:12]  ³ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

[27:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “permanently.”

[3:11]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text adds “so that” here, formally connecting this clause with the next.

[18:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “Who are my relatives, the clan of my father?” The term חַי (khay), traditionally understood as “my life,” is here a rare word meaning “family, kinfolk” (see HALOT 309 s.v. III חַי). The phrase “clan of my father” may be a scribal gloss explaining the referent of this rare word.

[7:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “approached for battle against Israel.”

[7:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “before.”

[17:25]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he is coming up.”

[28:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “their camps.”

[28:1]  ²² tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.

[14:45]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and he did not die.”