1 Samuel 13:6

13:6 The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, ¹  and cisterns.

1 Samuel 14:11

14:11 When they ²  made themselves known to the Philistine garrison, the Philistines said, “Look! The Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they hid themselves.”

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.

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¹ tn Or perhaps “vaults.” This rare term also occurs in Judg 9:46, 49. Cf. KJV “high places”; ASV “coverts”; NAB “caverns”; NASB “cellars”; NIV, NCV, TEV “pits”; NRSV, NLT “tombs.”

² tn Heb “the two of them.”

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.