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 15:30

15:30 Saul 1  again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. 2  When he arrived in Bethlehem, 3  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They 4  said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 30:26

30:26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah who were his friends, saying, “Here’s a gift 5  for you from the looting of the Lord’s enemies!”

1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tn Heb “said.”

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4 tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

5 tn Heb “blessing.”