1 Samuel 15:1

Saul Is Rejected as King

15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. ¹ 

1 Samuel 15:18

15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign ²  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you ³  have destroyed them.’

1 Samuel 16:20

16:20 So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat ⁴  and sent them to Saul with ⁵  his son David.

1 Samuel 19:15

19:15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”

1 Samuel 25:5

25:5 he ⁶  sent ten servants, ⁷  saying to them, ⁸  “Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name. ⁹ 

1 Samuel 25:14

25:14 But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet ¹⁰  our lord, but he screamed at them.

1 Samuel 25:32

25:32 Then David said to Abigail, “Praised ¹¹  be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!

1 Samuel 25:40

25:40 So the servants of David went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, “David has sent us to you to bring you back to be his wife.”

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¹ tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).

² tn Heb “journey.”

³ tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).

⁴ tn Heb “a kid of the goats.”

⁵ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

⁶ tn Heb “David”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun has been used in the translation.

⁷ tn Or “young men.”

⁸ tn Heb “and David said to the young men.”

⁹ tn Heb “and inquire concerning him in my name in regard to peace.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “bless.”

¹¹ tn Heb “blessed” (also in vv. 33, 39).