1 Samuel 9:7

9:7 So Saul said to his servant, “All right, ¹  we can go. But what can we bring the man, since the food in our bags is used up? We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”

1 Samuel 10:24

10:24 Then Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? Indeed, there is no one like him among all the people!” All the people shouted out, “Long live the king!”

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 11:7

11:7 He took a pair ²  of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. ³ 

1 Samuel 14:6

14:6 Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will intervene ⁴  for us. Nothing can prevent the Lord from delivering, whether by many or by a few.”

1 Samuel 18:25

18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ⁵  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

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 ⁶  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan ⁷  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing ⁸  large or small without making me aware of it. ⁹  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

1 Samuel 20:21

20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; ¹⁰  get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

1 Samuel 21:1

21:1 (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met ¹¹  David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”

1 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers ¹²  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” ¹³ 

1 Samuel 27:1

David Aligns Himself with the Philistines

27:1 David thought to himself, ¹⁴  “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”

[9:7]  ¹ tn Heb “look.”

[11:7]  ² tn Heb “yoke.”

[11:7]  ³ tn Heb “like one man.”

[14:6]  ³ tn Heb “act.”

[18:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “the king’s.”

[19:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “your life.”

[20:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ⁷ tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading “he will not do,” rather than the Kethib of the MT (“do to him”).

[20:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

[20:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “from you and here.”

[21:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “trembled to meet.”

[21:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “servants.”

[21:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”

[27:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “said to his heart.”