1 Samuel 5:8-9

5:8 So they assembled ¹  all the leaders of the Philistines and asked, “What should we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They replied, “The ark of the God of Israel should be moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked ²  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city ³  with sores. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 6:17

6:17 These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the Lord – one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

1 Samuel 7:14

7:14 The cities that the Philistines had captured from Israel were returned to Israel, from Ekron to Gath. Israel also delivered their territory from the control ⁵  of the Philistines. There was also peace between Israel and the Amorites.

1 Samuel 17:4

17:4 Then a champion ⁶  came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 17:23

17:23 As he was speaking with them, the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines. He spoke the way he usually did, ⁸  and David heard it.

1 Samuel 17:52

17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. ⁹  They chased the Philistines to the valley ¹⁰  and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

1 Samuel 21:10

21:10 So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath.

1 Samuel 21:12

21:12 David thought about what they said ¹¹  and was very afraid of King Achish of Gath.

1 Samuel 22:1

David Goes to Adullam and Mizpah

22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family ¹²  learned about it, they went down there to him.

1 Samuel 27:2-4

27:2 So David left and crossed over to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath accompanied by his six hundred men. 27:3 David settled with Achish in Gath, along with his men and their families. ¹³  David had with him his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow. 27:4 When Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he did not mount a new search for him.

1 Samuel 27:11

27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time ¹⁴  that he lived in the country of the Philistines.

[5:8]  ¹ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:9]  ² tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

[5:9]  ³ tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

[5:9]  ⁴ tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

[7:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “hand.”

[17:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “the man of the space between the two [armies].” See v. 23.

[17:4]  ⁷ tc Heb “his height was six cubits and a span” (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV). A cubit was approximately eighteen inches, a span nine inches. So, according to the Hebrew tradition, Goliath was about nine feet, nine inches tall (cf. NIV, CEV, NLT “over nine feet”; NCV “nine feet, four inches”; TEV “nearly 3 metres”). However, some Greek witnesses, Josephus, and a manuscript of 1 Samuel from Qumran read “four cubits and a span” here, that is, about six feet, nine inches (cf. NAB “six and a half feet”). This seems more reasonable; it is likely that Goliath’s height was exaggerated as the story was retold. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 286, 291.

[17:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “according to these words.”

[17:52]  ⁹ tn Heb “arose and cried out.”

[17:52]  ¹⁰ tc Most of the LXX ms tradition has here “Gath.”

[21:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “placed these matters in his heart.”

[22:1]  ¹² tn Heb “house.”

[27:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “a man and his house.”

[27:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “all the days.”