1 Samuel 5:5

5:5 (For this reason, to this very day, neither Dagon’s priests nor anyone else who enters Dagon’s temple step on Dagon’s threshold in Ashdod.)

1 Samuel 8:8

8:8 Just as they have done ¹  from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.

1 Samuel 11:15

11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, where ²  they established Saul as king in the Lord’s presence. They offered up peace offerings there in the Lord’s presence. Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.

1 Samuel 17:52

17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. ³  They chased the Philistines to the valley ⁴  and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

1 Samuel 18:8

18:8 This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought, ⁵  “They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?”

1 Samuel 20:7

20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ ⁶  then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 25:2

David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal

25:2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; ⁸  he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:36

25:36 When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time ⁹  and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing ¹⁰  until morning’s light.

1 Samuel 26:21

26:21 Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won’t harm you, for you treated my life with value ¹¹  this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!” ¹² 

1 Samuel 28:20

28:20 Saul quickly fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words. He was completely drained of energy, ¹³  not having eaten anything ¹⁴  all that day and night.

1 Samuel 30:6

30:6 David was very upset, for the men ¹⁵  were thinking of stoning him; ¹⁶  each man grieved bitterly ¹⁷  over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.

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¹ tn Heb “according to all the deeds which they have done.”

² tn Heb “and there in Gilgal.”

³ tn Heb “arose and cried out.”

⁴ tc Most of the LXX ms tradition has here “Gath.”

⁵ tn Heb “said.” So also in vv. 11, 17.

⁶ tn Heb “good.”

⁷ tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”

⁸ tn Heb “great.”

⁹ tn Heb “and the heart of Nabal was good upon him”; NASB, NRSV “Nabal’s heart was merry within him”; NIV “he was in high spirits”; NCV, TEV “was in a good mood”; CEV “was very drunk and feeling good.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and she did not tell him a thing, small or large.”

¹¹ tn Heb “my life was valuable in your eyes.”

¹² tn Heb “and I have erred very greatly.”

¹³ tn Heb “also there was no strength in him.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “food.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “people.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “said to stone him.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”