1 Samuel 5:8

5:8 So they assembled¹ all the leaders of the Philistines and asked, “What should we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They replied, “The ark of the God of Israel should be moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.

1 Samuel 6:3-4

6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of² the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand is not removed from you.” 6:4 They inquired, “What is the guilt offering that we should send to him?”

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.

1 Samuel 9:19

9:19 Samuel replied to Saul, “I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking.³

1 Samuel 14:36

14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout⁴ them until the break of day.⁵ We won’t leave any of them alive!”⁶ They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.”⁷ But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

1 Samuel 16:11

16:11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Is that all of the young men?” Jesse⁸ replied, “There is still the youngest one, but he’s taking care of the flock.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we cannot turn our attention to other things until he comes here.”

1 Samuel 17:45

17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied!

1 Samuel 17:55

17:55 ⁹Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”

1 Samuel 18:25

18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his¹⁰ enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

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.’¹¹ I have told my soldiers¹² to wait at a certain place.¹³

1 Samuel 21:9

David Goes to Gath

21:9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, is wrapped in a garment behind the ephod. If you wish, take it for yourself. Other than that, there’s nothing here.” David said, “There’s nothing like it! Give it to me!”

1 Samuel 28:15

28:15 Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul replied, “I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me – not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do.”

¹tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

²tc The LXX and a Qumran ms add “the covenant of the Lord.”

³tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

⁴tn Heb “plunder.”

⁵tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”

⁶tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”

⁷tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.

⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jesse) has been specified in the translation both here and in v. 12 for clarity.

⁹tc Most LXX mss lack 17:55–18:5.

¹⁰tn Heb “the king’s.”

¹¹tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

¹²tn Heb “servants.”

¹³tn 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.