1 Samuel 1:18
1:18 She said, “May I, your servant, find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and got something to eat. 1 Her face no longer looked sad.
1 Samuel 17:18
17:18 Also take these ten portions of cheese to their commanding officer. 2 Find out how your brothers are doing 3 and bring back their pledge that they received the goods. 4
1 Samuel 19:2
19:2 So Jonathan told David, “My father Saul is trying 5 to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find 6 a hiding place and stay in seclusion. 7
1 Samuel 20:36
20:36 He said to his servant, “Run, find the arrows that I am about to shoot.” As the servant ran, Jonathan 8 shot the arrow beyond him.
1 Samuel 24:2
24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find 9 David and his men in the region of 10 the rocks of the mountain goats. 11
1 tc Several medieval Hebrew mss and the Syriac Peshitta lack the words “and got something to eat.”
2 tn Heb “officer of the thousand.”
3 tn Heb “and your brothers, observe with respect to welfare.”
4 tn Heb “and their pledge take.” This probably refers to some type of confirmation that the goods arrived safely. See R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 177. Cf. NIV “bring back some assurance”; NCV “some proof to show me they are all right”; NLT “bring me back a letter from them.”
5 tn Heb “seeking.”
6 tn Heb “stay in.”
7 tn Heb “and hide yourself.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “to search [for].”
10 tn Heb “upon the face of.”
11 tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).