1 Samuel 5:11

5:11 So they assembled ¹  all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us ²  and our ³  people!” The terror ⁴  of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 11:9

11:9 They said to the messengers who had come, “Here’s what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: ‘Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.’” When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy.

1 Samuel 18:25

18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ⁶  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

1 Samuel 20:21

20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; ⁷  get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

1 Samuel 20:29

20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go, ⁸  for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged ⁹  me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go ¹⁰  to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

1 Samuel 21:2

21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ ¹¹  I have told my soldiers ¹²  to wait at a certain place. ¹³ 

1 Samuel 22:13

22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave ¹⁴  him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes ¹⁵  me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”

[5:11]  ¹ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:11]  ² tn Heb “me.”

[5:11]  ³ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ⁴ tn Or “panic.”

[5:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”

[18:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “the king’s.”

[20:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from you and here.”

[20:29]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “send me.”

[20:29]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “commanded.”

[20:29]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “be released [from duty].”

[21:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

[21:2]  ²² tn Heb “servants.”

[21:2]  ²³ tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.

[22:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “by giving.”

[22:13]  ²⁷ tn Heb “rises up against.”