1 Samuel 2:22

2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel 1  and how they used to have sex with 2  the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 18:6

18:6 When the men 3  arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments. 4 

1 Samuel 21:5

21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ 5  equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”

1 tn Heb “to all Israel.”

2 tn Heb “lie with.”

3 tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.

4 tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”

5 tn Heb “servants’.”