18:17 1 Then Saul said to David, “Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior 2 for me and fight the battles of the Lord.” For Saul thought, “There’s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!”
20:3 Taking an oath, David again 3 said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact 4 that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 5 ‘Don’t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.’ But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!”
27:1 David thought to himself, 6 “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”
1 tc Much of the
2 tn Heb “son of valor.”
3 tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”
4 tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
5 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.
6 tn Heb “said to his heart.”