1 Samuel 4:17

4:17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled from ¹  the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”

1 Samuel 9:8

9:8 The servant went on to answer Saul, “Look, I happen to have in my hand a quarter shekel ²  of silver. I will give it to the man of God and he will tell us where we should go.” ³ 

1 Samuel 9:19

9:19 Samuel replied to Saul, “I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 9:21

9:21 Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel’s tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?”

1 Samuel 12:3

12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. ⁵  Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, ⁶  and I will return it to you!”

1 Samuel 14:12

14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” ⁷  Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given ⁸  them into the hand of Israel!”

1 Samuel 16:18

16:18 One of his attendants replied, ⁹  “I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem ¹⁰  who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior ¹¹  and is articulate ¹²  and handsome, ¹³  for the Lord is with him.”

1 Samuel 21:4-5

21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers ¹⁴  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” ¹⁵  21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ ¹⁶  equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”

1 Samuel 21:11

21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,

‘Saul struck down his thousands,

But David his tens of thousands’?”

1 Samuel 22:9

22:9 But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with the servants of Saul, replied, “I saw this son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.

1 Samuel 26:6

26:6 David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” Abishai replied, “I will go down with you.”

1 Samuel 29:9

29:9 Achish replied to David, “I am convinced that you are as reliable ¹⁷  as the angel of God! However, the leaders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go up with us in the battle.’

[4:17]  ¹ tn Heb “before.”

[9:8]  ² sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).

[9:8]  ³ tn Heb “our way.”

[9:19]  ³ tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

[12:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

[12:3]  ⁵ tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[14:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “a thing.”

[14:12]  ⁶ tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.

[16:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[16:18]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “mighty man of valor and a man of war.”

[16:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “discerning of word.”

[16:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a man of form.”

[21:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “servants.”

[21:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”

[21:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “servants’.”

[29:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “I know that you are good in my eyes.”