1 Samuel 5:4

5:4 But when they got up early the following day, Dagon was again lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. The head of Dagon and his two hands were sheared off and were lying at the threshold. Only Dagon’s body was left intact. ¹ 

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. ² 

1 Samuel 11:11

11:11 The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them ³  down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.

1 Samuel 14:36

14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout ⁴  them until the break of day. ⁵  We won’t leave any of them alive!” ⁶  They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” ⁷  But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

1 Samuel 15:12

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where ⁸  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ⁹  and went down to Gilgal.” ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 17:20

17:20 So David got up early in the morning and entrusted the flock to someone else who would watch over it. ¹¹  After loading up, he went just as Jesse had instructed him. He arrived at the camp ¹²  as the army was going out to the battle lines shouting its battle cry.

1 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself ¹³  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 25:34

25:34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives – he who has prevented me from harming you – if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”

1 Samuel 25:36

25:36 When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time ¹⁴  and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing ¹⁵  until morning’s light.

[5:4]  ¹ tc Heb “only Dagon was left.” We should probably read the word גֵּו (gev, “back”) before Dagon, understanding it to have the sense of the similar word גְּוִיָּה (gÿviyyah, “body”). This variant is supported by the following evidence: The LXX has ἡ ῥάχις (Jh rJacis, “the back” or “trunk”); the Syriac Peshitta has wegusmeh (“and the body of”); the Targum has gupyeh (“the body of”); the Vulgate has truncus (“the trunk of,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT). On the strength of this evidence the present translation employs the phrase “Dagon’s body.”

[9:19]  ² tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

[11:11]  ³ tn Heb “Ammon.” By metonymy the name “Ammon” is used collectively for the soldiers in the Ammonite army.

[14:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “plunder.”

[14:36]  ⁵ tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”

[14:36]  ⁶ tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”

[14:36]  ⁷ tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.

[15:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “and look.”

[15:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

[15:12]  ⁷ tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”

[17:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “to a guard”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “with a keeper”; NIV “with a shepherd.” Since in contemporary English “guard” sounds like someone at a military installation or a prison, the present translation uses “to someone else who would watch over it.”

[17:20]  ⁷ tn Or “entrenchment.”

[19:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “your life.”

[25:36]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the heart of Nabal was good upon him”; NASB, NRSV “Nabal’s heart was merry within him”; NIV “he was in high spirits”; NCV, TEV “was in a good mood”; CEV “was very drunk and feeling good.”

[25:36]  ⁹ tn Heb “and she did not tell him a thing, small or large.”