1 Samuel 9:26

9:26 They got up at dawn and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, so I can send you on your way.” So Saul got up and the two of them – he and Samuel – went outside.

1 Samuel 11:3

11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.”

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, ¹  and David heard it.

1 Samuel 17:37

17:37 David went on to say, “The Lord who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!” Then Saul said to David, “Go! The Lord will be with you.” ² 

1 Samuel 18:5

18:5 On every mission on which Saul sent him, David achieved success. So Saul appointed him over the men of war. This pleased not only all the army, but also Saul’s servants. ³ 

1 Samuel 26:11

26:11 But may the Lord prevent me from extending my hand against the Lord’s chosen one! Now take the spear by Saul’s head and the jug of water, and let’s get out of here!”

1 Samuel 28:1

The Witch of Endor

28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops ⁴  for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” ⁵ 

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ⁶  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ⁷  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

[17:23]  ¹ tn Heb “according to these words.”

[17:37]  ¹ tn Or “Go, and may the Lord be with you” (so NASB, NCV, NRSV).

[18:5]  ¹ tn Heb “it was good in the eyes of all the people and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul.”

[28:1]  ¹ tn Heb “their camps.”

[28:1]  ² tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.

[30:16]  ¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:16]  ² tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”