4:4 So the army 1 sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
They replied, “The Philistine leaders number five. So send five gold sores and five gold mice, for it is the same plague that has afflicted both you and your leaders.
12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave 5 them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s 6 army, 7 and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. 12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, 8 ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. 9 Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ 10
14:24 Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: “Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.
14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 14
17:8 Goliath 16 stood and called to Israel’s troops, 17 “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose 18 for yourselves a man so he may come down 19 to me!
17:20 So David got up early in the morning and entrusted the flock to someone else who would watch over it. 20 After loading up, he went just as Jesse had instructed him. He arrived at the camp 21 as the army was going out to the battle lines shouting its battle cry.
17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so 22 to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”
19:4 So Jonathan spoke on David’s behalf 26 to his father Saul. He said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial 27 for you. 19:5 He risked his life 28 when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”
21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.
26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.
29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you 40 serving 41 with me in the army. 42 I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion 43 of the leaders, you are not reliable. 44
30:16 So he took David 45 down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot 46 they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
31:4 Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.
1 tn Or “people.”
2 tn Heb “look.”
3 tn Heb “anointed [one].”
4 tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”
6 map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.
7 tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”
8 tn Heb “and said.”
9 tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.
sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.
10 tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
11 tn Heb “a thing.”
12 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
13 tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”
14 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
15 tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסִפְךָ (’esfÿka, “I sweep you away,” from the root ספה [sfh]) rather than the MT אֹסִפְךָ (’osifÿka, “I am gathering you,” from the root אסף[’sf]).
16 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”
18 tc The translation follows the ancient versions in reading “choose,” (from the root בחר, bkhr), rather than the MT. The verb in MT (ברה, brh) elsewhere means “to eat food”; the sense of “to choose,” required here by the context, is not attested for this root. The MT apparently reflects an early scribal error.
19 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.
20 tn Heb “to a guard”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “with a keeper”; NIV “with a shepherd.” Since in contemporary English “guard” sounds like someone at a military installation or a prison, the present translation uses “to someone else who would watch over it.”
21 tn Or “entrenchment.”
22 tn Heb “he is coming up.”
23 tn Heb “he had not tested.”
24 tn Heb “the king’s.”
25 tn Heb “arose and went.”
26 tn Heb “spoke good with respect to David.”
27 tn Heb “good.”
28 tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”
29 tn Heb “uncover your ear.”
30 tn Heb “in peace.”
31 tn Heb “send me.”
32 tn Heb “commanded.”
33 tn Heb “be released [from duty].”
34 tn Heb “servants’.”
35 tn Heb “by giving.”
36 tn Heb “rises up against.”
37 tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”
38 tn Heb “there is not in my hand.”
39 tn Heb “all the days.”
40 tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.
41 tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.
42 tn Heb “camp.”
43 tn Heb “eyes.”
44 tn Heb “good.”
45 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
46 tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”