1 Samuel 12:21
12:21 You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty. 1
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 16:3
16:3 Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you should do. You will anoint for me the one I point out 2 to you.”
1 Samuel 20:19
20:19 On the third day 3 you should go down quickly 4 and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. 5 Stay near the stone Ezel.
1 Samuel 21:15
21:15 Do I have a shortage of fools, that you have brought me this man to display his insanity in front of me? Should this man enter my house?”
1 Samuel 23:2
23:2 So David asked the Lord, “Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The Lord said to David, “Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”
1 tn Or “useless” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “nothing”; NASB “futile”; TEV “are not real.”
2 tn Heb “say”; KJV, NRSV “name”; NIV “indicate.”
3 tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).
4 tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.
5 tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.