1 Samuel 5:3

5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, ¹  Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

1 Samuel 10:18

10:18 He said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt and I delivered you from the power ²  of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.

1 Samuel 14:4

14:4 Now there was a steep cliff on each side of the pass through which Jonathan intended to go to reach the Philistine garrison. One cliff was named Bozez, the other Seneh.

1 Samuel 15:3

15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare ³  them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

1 Samuel 20:5

20:5 David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. ⁴  You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.

1 Samuel 26:7

26:7 So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.

1 Samuel 26:20

26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge ⁵  in the hill country.”

1 Samuel 28:19-20

28:19 The Lord will hand you and Israel over to the Philistines! ⁶  Tomorrow both you and your sons will be with me. ⁷  The Lord will also hand the army ⁸  of Israel over to the Philistines!”

28:20 Saul quickly fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words. He was completely drained of energy, ⁹  not having eaten anything ¹⁰  all that day and night.

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 30:1

David Defeats the Amalekites

30:1 On the third day David and his men came to Ziklag. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it. ¹³ 

[5:3]  ¹ tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”

[10:18]  ² tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).

[15:3]  ³ tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

[20:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[26:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.

[28:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “And the Lord will give also Israel along with you into the hand of the Philistines.”

[28:19]  ⁷ tc With the exception of the Lucianic recension, the LXX has here “and tomorrow you and your sons with you will fall.”

[28:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “camp.”

[28:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “also there was no strength in him.”

[28:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “food.”

[28:23]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”

[30:1]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”