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 9:20-21
9:20 Don’t be concerned 6 about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” 7
9:21 Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel’s tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?”
1 Samuel 20:6
20:6 If your father happens to miss me, you should say, ‘David urgently requested me to let him go 8 to his city Bethlehem, 9 for there is an annual sacrifice there for his entire family.’
1 Samuel 20:15
20:15 Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth
1 Samuel 22:1
David Goes to Adullam and Mizpah
22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family 10 learned about it, they went down there to 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 tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”
7 tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”
8 tn Heb “to run.”
9 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.
10 tn Heb “house.”