12:6 Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors 1 up from the land of Egypt.
13:3 Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost 2 that was at Geba and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul alerted 3 all the land saying, “Let the Hebrews pay attention!”
13:19 A blacksmith could not be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, “This will prevent the Hebrews from making swords and spears.”
29:11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to return 5 to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
1 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 8).
2 tn Or perhaps “struck down the Philistine official.” See the note at 1 Sam 10:5. Cf. TEV “killed the Philistine commander.”
3 tn Heb “blew the ram’s horn in.”
4 tc The LXX reads “saw.” See v. 27.
5 tc Heb “to go in the morning to return.” With the exception of Origen and the Lucianic recension, the Old Greek tradition lacks the phrase “in the morning.” The Syriac Peshitta also omits it.