1 Samuel 2:33

2:33 Any one of you that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause your 1  eyes to fail 2  and will cause you grief. 3  All of those born to your family 4  will die in the prime of life. 5 

1 Samuel 18:22

18:22 Then Saul instructed his servants, “Tell David secretly, ‘The king is pleased with you, and all his servants like you. So now become the king’s son-in-law.”

1 Samuel 18:30

18:30 6  Then the leaders of the Philistines would march out, and as often as they did so, David achieved more success than all of Saul’s servants. His name was held in high esteem.

1 Samuel 22:6

Saul Executes the Priests

22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. 7  Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.

1 tc The LXX, a Qumran ms, and a few old Latin mss have the third person pronominal suffix “his” here.

2 tn Heb “to cause your eyes to fail.” Elsewhere this verb, when used of eyes, refers to bloodshot eyes resulting from weeping, prolonged staring, or illness (see Lev 26:16; Pss 69:3; 119:82; Lam 2:11; 4:17).

3 tn Heb “and to cause your soul grief.”

4 tn Heb “and all the increase of your house.”

5 tc The text is difficult. The MT literally says “they will die [as] men.” Apparently the meaning is that they will be cut off in the prime of their life without reaching old age. The LXX and a Qumran ms, however, have the additional word “sword” (“they will die by the sword of men”). This is an easier reading (cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT), but that fact is not in favor of its originality.

6 tc Verse 30 is absent in most LXX mss.

7 tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”