1 Samuel 19:5
19:5 He risked his life 1 when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”
1 Samuel 20:29
20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go, 2 for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged 3 me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go 4 to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”
1 Samuel 21:2
21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ 5 I have told my soldiers 6 to wait at a certain place. 7
1 tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”
2 tn Heb “send me.”
3 tn Heb “commanded.”
4 tn Heb “be released [from duty].”
5 tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”
6 tn Heb “servants.”
7 tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.