1 Samuel 6:7

6:7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

1 Samuel 8:11

8:11 He said, “Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.

1 Samuel 9:8

9:8 The servant went on to answer Saul, “Look, I happen to have in my hand a quarter shekel ¹  of silver. I will give it to the man of God and he will tell us where we should go.” ² 

1 Samuel 9:12

9:12 They replied, “Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.

1 Samuel 12:15

12:15 But if you don’t obey ³  the Lord and rebel against what the Lord says, the hand of the Lord will be against both you and your king. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ⁵  for himself a man who is loyal to him ⁶  and the Lord has appointed ⁷  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 15:23

15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as ⁸  king.”

1 Samuel 16:23

16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone. ⁹ 

1 Samuel 18:30

18:30 ¹⁰  Then the leaders of the Philistines would march out, and as often as they did so, David achieved more success than all of Saul’s servants. His name was held in high esteem.

1 Samuel 19:2

19:2 So Jonathan told David, “My father Saul is trying ¹¹  to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find ¹²  a hiding place and stay in seclusion. ¹³ 

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 ¹⁴  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 20:31

20:31 For as long as ¹⁵  this son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established. Now, send some men ¹⁶  and bring him to me. For he is as good as dead!” ¹⁷ 

1 Samuel 27:8-10

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach ¹⁸  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.) 27:9 When David would attack a district, ¹⁹  he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish. 27:10 When Achish would ask, “Where ²⁰  did you raid today?” David would say, “The Negev of Judah” or “The Negev of Jeharmeel” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”

1 Samuel 30:24

30:24 Who will listen to you in this matter? The portion of the one who went down into the battle will be the same as the portion of the one who remained with the equipment! Let their portions be the same!”

[9:8]  ¹ sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).

[9:8]  ² tn Heb “our way.”

[12:15]  ¹ tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”

[12:15]  ² tc The LXX reads “your king” rather than the MT’s “your fathers.” The latter makes little sense here. Some follow MT, but translate “as it was against your fathers.” See P. K. McCarter, 1 Samuel (AB), 212.

[13:14]  ¹ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

[13:14]  ² tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

[13:14]  ³ tn Heb “commanded.”

[15:23]  ¹ tn Or “from [being].”

[16:23]  ¹ tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”

[18:30]  ¹ tc Verse 30 is absent in most LXX mss.

[19:2]  ¹ tn Heb “seeking.”

[19:2]  ² tn Heb “stay in.”

[19:2]  ³ tn Heb “and hide yourself.”

[19:11]  ¹ tn Heb “your life.”

[20:31]  ¹ tn Heb “all the days that.”

[20:31]  ² tn The words “some men” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:31]  ³ tn Heb “a son of death.”

[27:8]  ¹ tn Heb “from where you come.”

[27:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the land.”

[27:10]  ¹ tc The translation follows the LXX (ἐπι τίνα, epi tina) and Vulgate (in quem) which assume אֶל מִי (’el mi, “to whom”) rather than the MT אַל (’al, “not”). The MT makes no sense here. Another possibility is that the text originally had אַן (’an, “where”), which has been distorted in the MT to אַל. Cf. the Syriac Peshitta and the Targum, which have “where.”