1 Samuel 6:20

6:20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark ¹  go up from here?”

1 Samuel 8:18

8:18 In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.” ² 

1 Samuel 29:5

29:5 Isn’t this David, of whom they sang as they danced, ³ 

‘Saul has struck down his thousands,

but David his tens of thousands’?”

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¹ tn Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the Lord himself.

² tc The LXX adds “because you have chosen for yourselves a king.”

³ tn Heb “in dances.”