1 Samuel 5:2

5:2 The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon.

1 Samuel 6:10

6:10 So the men did as instructed. ¹  They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.

1 Samuel 7:12

7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. ²  He named it Ebenezer, ³  saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 10:23

10:23 So they ran and brought him from there. When he took his position among the people, he stood head and shoulders above them all.

1 Samuel 16:20

16:20 So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat ⁴  and sent them to Saul with ⁵  his son David.

1 Samuel 17:54

17:54 David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, ⁶  and he put Goliath’s ⁷  weapons in his tent.

1 Samuel 17:57

17:57 So when David returned from striking down the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. He still had the head of the Philistine in his hand.

1 Samuel 19:6

19:6 Saul accepted Jonathan’s advice ⁸  and took an oath, “As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death.”

1 Samuel 20:17

20:17 Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life. ⁹ 

1 Samuel 23:5

23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. ¹⁰  David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ¹¹  David and his men in the region of ¹²  the rocks of the mountain goats. ¹³ 

1 Samuel 30:20

30:20 David took all the flocks and herds and drove them in front of the rest of the animals. People were saying, “This is David’s plunder!”

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¹ tn Heb “and the men did so.”

² tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”

³ sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.

⁴ tn Heb “a kid of the goats.”

⁵ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

⁶ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁷ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “and Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan.”

⁹ tn Heb “for [with] the love of his [own] life he loved him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”

¹¹ tn Heb “to search [for].”

¹² tn Heb “upon the face of.”

¹³ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).