1 Samuel 9:3

9:3 The donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, ¹  so Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go ²  look for the donkeys.” ³ 

1 Samuel 14:9

14:9 If they say to us, ‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay ⁴  right there and not go up to them.

1 Samuel 14:37

14:37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.

1 Samuel 15:18

15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign ⁵  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you ⁶  have destroyed them.’

1 Samuel 23:4

23:4 So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”

1 Samuel 23:22

23:22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely ⁷  where he is ⁸  and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

[9:3]  ¹ tn Heb “became lost.”

[9:3]  ² tn Heb “and arise, go.”

[9:3]  ³ tc The Syriac Peshitta includes the following words: “So Saul arose and went out. He took with him one of the boys and went out to look for his father’s donkeys.”

[14:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “stand.”

[15:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “journey.”

[15:18]  ⁸ tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).

[23:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “know and see.” The expression is a hendiadys. See also v. 23.

[23:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his place where his foot is.”