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 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!” ⁶  Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given ⁷  them into the hand of Israel!”

1 Samuel 17:8

17:8 Goliath ⁸  stood and called to Israel’s troops, ⁹  “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose ¹⁰  for yourselves a man so he may come down ¹¹  to me!

[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.”

[14:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “a thing.”

[14:12]  ⁷ 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.

[17:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:8]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”

[17:8]  ¹³ tc The translation follows the ancient versions in reading “choose,” (from the root בחר, bkhr), rather than the MT. The verb in MT (ברה, brh) elsewhere means “to eat food”; the sense of “to choose,” required here by the context, is not attested for this root. The MT apparently reflects an early scribal error.

[17:8]  ¹⁴ tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.