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 16:20

16:20 So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat ¹  and sent them to Saul with ²  his son David.

1 Samuel 22:19

22:19 As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep – all with the sword.

1 Samuel 25:20

25:20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

1 Samuel 25:23

25:23 When Abigail saw David, she got down quickly from the donkey, threw herself down before David, and bowed to the ground.

1 Samuel 25:42

25:42 Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. ³  She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 27:9

27:9 When David would attack a district, ⁴  he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.

1 Samuel 12:3

12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. ⁵  Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, ⁶  and I will return it to you!”

1 Samuel 15:3

15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare ⁷  them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ⁸  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ⁹  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

[16:20]  ¹ tn Heb “a kid of the goats.”

[16:20]  ² tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[25:42]  ¹ tn Heb “going at her feet.”

[27:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the land.”

[12:3]  ¹ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

[12:3]  ² tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:3]  ¹ tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

[25:18]  ¹ tn Heb “skins.”

[25:18]  ² sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.