1 Samuel 13:8

13:8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. ¹  But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. ² 

1 Samuel 13:16

13:16 Saul, his son Jonathan, and the army that remained with them stayed in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped in Micmash. ³ 

1 Samuel 14:2

14:2 Now Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree in Migron, on the outskirts of Gibeah. The army that was with him numbered about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found ⁴  the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 14:30

14:30 Certainly if the army had eaten some of the enemies’ provisions that they came across today, would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”

1 Samuel 15:4

15:4 So Saul assembled ⁶  the army ⁷  and mustered them at Telaim. There were 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

1 Samuel 17:2

17:2 Saul and the Israelite army ⁸  assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against ⁹  the Philistines.

1 Samuel 18:13

18:13 Saul removed David ¹⁰  from his presence and made him a commanding officer. ¹¹  David led the army out to battle and back. ¹² 

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¹ tn This apparently refers to the instructions given by Samuel in 1 Sam 10:8. If so, several years had passed. On the relationship between chs. 10 and 13, see V. P. Long, The Art of Biblical History (FCI), 201-23.

² tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”

³ tn The juxtaposition of disjunctive clauses in v.16 indicates synchronic action.

⁴ tn Heb “and look, there was”

⁵ tn Heb “the sword of a man against his companion, a very great panic.”

⁶ tn Heb “caused the people to hear.”

⁷ tn Heb “people.”

⁸ tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”

⁹ tn Heb “to meet.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “an officer of a thousand.”

¹² tn Heb “and he went out and came in before the people.” See v. 16.