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.’ 1 I have told my soldiers 2 to wait at a certain place. 3
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’ 4 equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
1 tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”
2 tn Heb “servants.”
3 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.
4 tn Heb “servants’.”