1 Samuel 9:9

9:9 (Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say, “Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.)

1 Samuel 14:9-10

14:9 If they say to us, ‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay ¹  right there and not go up to them. 14:10 But if they say, ‘Come up against us,’ we will go up. For in that case the Lord has given them into our hand – it will be a sign to us.”

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ²  Israel along the way when Israel ³  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 20:7

20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ ⁴  then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 25:22

25:22 God will severely punish David, ⁶  if I leave alive until morning even one male ⁷  from all those who belong to him!”

[14:9]  ¹ tn Heb “stand.”

[15:2]  ¹ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

[15:2]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:7]  ¹ tn Heb “good.”

[20:7]  ² tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”

[25:22]  ¹ tc Heb “Thus God will do to the enemies of David and thus he will add.” Most of the Old Greek ms tradition has simply “David,” with no reference to his enemies. In OT imprecations such as the one found in v. 22 it is common for the speaker to direct malediction toward himself as an indication of the seriousness with which he regards the matter at hand. In other words, the speaker invites on himself dire consequences if he fails to fulfill the matter expressed in the oath. However, in the situation alluded to in v. 22 the threat actually does not come to fruition due to the effectiveness of Abigail’s appeal to David in behalf of her husband Nabal. Instead, David is placated through Abigail’s intervention. It therefore seems likely that the reference to “the enemies of David” in the MT of v. 22 is the result of a scribal attempt to deliver David from the implied consequences of this oath. The present translation follows the LXX rather than the MT here.

[25:22]  ² tn Heb “one who urinates against a wall” (also in v. 34); KJV “any that pisseth against the wall.”