1 Samuel 8:14

8:14 He will take your best fields and vineyards and give them to his own servants.

1 Samuel 8:16

8:16 He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.

1 Samuel 16:15

16:15 Then Saul’s servants said to him, “Look, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you!”

1 Samuel 16:17

16:17 So Saul said to his servants, “Find ¹  me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”

1 Samuel 18:24

18:24 When Saul’s servants reported what David had said,

1 Samuel 25:41

25:41 She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said, “Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash ²  the feet of the servants of my lord.”

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ³  “He is really hated ⁴  among his own people in ⁵  Israel! From now on ⁶  he will be my servant.”

1 Samuel 28:25

28:25 She brought it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and left that same night.

[16:17]  ¹ tn Heb “see.”

[25:41]  ¹ tn Heb “Here is your maidservant, for a lowly servant to wash.”

[27:12]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[27:12]  ² tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

[27:12]  ³ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

[27:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “permanently.”