1 Samuel 15:19

15:19 Why haven’t you obeyed ¹  the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord’s estimation.” ² 

1 Samuel 21:15

21:15 Do I have a shortage of fools, that you have brought me this man to display his insanity in front of me? Should this man enter my house?”

1 Samuel 24:17-18

24:17 He said to David, “You are more innocent ³  than I, for you have treated me well, even though I have tried to harm you! 24:18 You have explained today how you have treated me well. The Lord delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.

1 Samuel 26:18

26:18 He went on to say, “Why is my lord chasing his servant? What have I done? What wrong have I done? ⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “you have done what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

³ tn Or “righteous” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “you are in the right”; NLT “are a better man than I am.”

⁴ tn Heb “What in my hand [is] evil?”