1 Samuel 4:3

4:3 When the army ¹  came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by ²  the Philistines? Let’s take with us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Shiloh. When it is with us, it will save us ³  from the hand of our enemies.

1 Samuel 10:1

Samuel Anoints Saul

10:1 Then Samuel took a small container of olive oil and poured it on Saul’s ⁴  head. Samuel ⁵  kissed him and said, “The Lord has chosen you ⁶  to lead his people Israel! You will rule over the Lord’s people and you will deliver them from the power of the enemies who surround them. This will be your sign that the Lord has chosen ⁷  you as leader over his inheritance. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ⁹  for himself a man who is loyal to him ¹⁰  and the Lord has appointed ¹¹  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan ¹²  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing ¹³  large or small without making me aware of it. ¹⁴  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

1 Samuel 20:13

20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know ¹⁵  and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. ¹⁶  May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.

1 Samuel 20:42

20:42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the Lord saying, ‘The Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”

(21:1)

¹⁷ Then David ¹⁸  got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.

1 Samuel 22:17

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers ¹⁹  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ²⁰  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ²¹  the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:10

24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity ²²  on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ ²³ 

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¹ tn Or “people.”

² tn Heb “before.”

³ tn Heb “and it will come in our midst and it will save.” After the cohortative (see “let’s take”), the prefixed verbal forms with the prefixed conjunction indicate purpose or result. The translation understands the ark to be the subject of the third masculine singular verbs, although it is possible to understand the Lord as the subject. In the latter case, one should translate, “when he is with us, he will save us.”

⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Samuel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “Is it not that the Lord has anointed you?” The question draws attention to the fact and is a rhetorical way of affirming the Lord’s choice of Saul. The translation reflects the rhetorical force of the question.

⁷ tn That is, “anointed.”

⁸ tc The MT reads simply “Is it not that the Lord has anointed you over his inheritance for a leader?” The translation follows the LXX. The MT apparently suffers from parablepsis, whereby a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the expression “the Lord has anointed you” to the second occurrence of this expression at the end of v. 1. This mistake caused the accidental omission of the intervening material in the LXX, which appears to preserve the original Hebrew text here.

⁹ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

¹⁰ tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

¹¹ tn Heb “commanded.”

¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading “he will not do,” rather than the Kethib of the MT (“do to him”).

¹⁴ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “uncover your ear.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “in peace.”

¹⁷ sn Beginning with 20:42b, the verse numbers through 21:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 20:42b ET = 21:1 HT, 21:1 ET = 21:2 HT, 21:2 ET = 21:3 HT, etc., through 21:15 ET = 21:16 HT. With 22:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹ tn Heb “runners.”

²⁰ tn Heb “their hand is.”

²¹ tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

²² tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.

²³ tn Heb “anointed.”