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 14:26
14:26 When the army entered the forest, they saw 2 the honey flowing, but no one ate any of it, 3 for the army was afraid of the oath.
1 Samuel 14:32
14:32 So the army rushed greedily on 4 the 5 plunder, confiscating sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them right on the ground, and the army ate them blood and all.
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 “and the army entered the forest, and look!”
3 tn Heb “and there was no one putting his hand to his mouth.”
4 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “and they rushed greedily upon,” rather than the Kethib, “and they did.”
5 tc The translation reads with the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss הַשָּׁלָל (hashalal, “the spoil”) rather than following the Kethib reading, שָׁלָל (shalal, “spoil”).