1 Samuel 17:37

17:37 David went on to say, “The Lord who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!” Then Saul said to David, “Go! The Lord will be with you.” ¹ 

1 Samuel 17:50

17:50 ² David prevailed over the Philistine with just the sling and the stone. He struck down the Philistine and killed him. David did not even have a sword in his hand. ³ 

1 Samuel 18:23

18:23 So Saul’s servants spoke these words privately ⁴  to David. David replied, “Is becoming the king’s son-in-law something insignificant to you? I’m just a poor and lightly-esteemed man!”

1 Samuel 19:10-11

19:10 Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. ⁵  David escaped quickly ⁶  that night.

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself ⁷  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 20:41

20:41 When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, ⁸  knelt ⁹  with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

1 Samuel 21:1

21:1 (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met ¹⁰  David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”

1 Samuel 22:5

22:5 Then Gad the prophet said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Go to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

1 Samuel 23:13-14

23:13 So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. ¹¹  When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition. 23:14 David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, ¹²  but God did not deliver David ¹³  into his hand.

1 Samuel 23:25

23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ¹⁴  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

1 Samuel 24:8

24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 25:10

25:10 But Nabal responded to David’s servants, “Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!

1 Samuel 27:3

27:3 David settled with Achish in Gath, along with his men and their families. ¹⁵  David had with him his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

1 Samuel 28:2

28:2 David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard ¹⁶  from now on.” ¹⁷ 

1 Samuel 30:6

30:6 David was very upset, for the men ¹⁸  were thinking of stoning him; ¹⁹  each man grieved bitterly ²⁰  over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.

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¹ tn Or “Go, and may the Lord be with you” (so NASB, NCV, NRSV).

² tc Most LXX mss lack v. 50.

³ tn Verse 50 is a summary statement; v. 51 gives a more detailed account of how David killed the Philistine.

⁴ tn Heb “in the ears of.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”

⁶ tn Heb “fled and escaped.”

⁷ tn Heb “your life.”

⁸ tc The translation follows the LXX in reading “the mound,” rather than the MT’s “the south.” It is hard to see what meaning the MT reading “from beside the south” would have as it stands, since such a location lacks specificity. The NIV treats it as an elliptical expression, rendering the phrase as “from the south side of the stone (rock NCV).” This is perhaps possible, but it seems better to follow the LXX rather than the MT here.

⁹ tn Heb “fell.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “trembled to meet.”

¹¹ tn Heb “they went where they went.”

¹² tn Heb “all the days.”

¹³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Heb “to search.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “a man and his house.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “all the days.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “people.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “said to stone him.”

²⁰ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”