1 Samuel 12:3

12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king.¹ Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me,² and I will return it to you!”

1 Samuel 12:9

12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave³ them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s⁴ army,⁵ and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

1 Samuel 12:17

12:17 Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves.”

1 Samuel 17:25

17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so⁶ to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”

1 Samuel 17:55

17:55 ⁷Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”

1 Samuel 18:6

18:6 When the men⁸ arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments.⁹

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 his¹⁰ enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

1 Samuel 19:4

19:4 So Jonathan spoke on David’s behalf¹¹ to his father Saul. He said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial¹² for you.

1 Samuel 20:29

20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go,¹³ for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged¹⁴ me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go¹⁵ to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

1 Samuel 21:2

21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’¹⁶ I have told my soldiers¹⁷ to wait at a certain place.¹⁸

1 Samuel 21:11

21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,

‘Saul struck down his thousands,

But David his tens of thousands’?”

1 Samuel 22:15

22:15 Was it just today that I began to inquire of God on his behalf? Far be it from me! The king should not accuse¹⁹ his servant or any of my father’s house. For your servant is not aware of all this – not in whole or in part!”²⁰

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good!²¹ As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead!²² Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

1 Samuel 26:20

26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge²³ in the hill country.”

1 Samuel 29:3

29:3 The leaders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time?²⁴ I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!”²⁵

1 Samuel 29:8

29:8 But David said to Achish, “What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”

¹tn Heb “anointed [one].”

²tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”

⁴map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

⁵tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”

⁶tn Heb “he is coming up.”

⁷tc Most LXX mss lack 17:55–18:5.

⁸tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.

⁹tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”

¹⁰tn Heb “the king’s.”

¹¹tn Heb “spoke good with respect to David.”

¹²tn Heb “good.”

¹³tn Heb “send me.”

¹⁴tn Heb “commanded.”

¹⁵tn Heb “be released [from duty].”

¹⁶tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

¹⁷tn Heb “servants.”

¹⁸tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.

¹⁹tn Heb “set a matter against.”

²⁰tn Heb “small or great.”

²¹tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

²²tn Heb “you are sons of death.”

²³tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.

²⁴tn Heb “these days or these years.”

²⁵tn Heb “from the day of his falling [away] until this day.”