1 Samuel 6:3

6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of 1  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.”

1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan 2  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing 3  large or small without making me aware of it. 4  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

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.’ 5  I have told my soldiers 6  to wait at a certain place. 7 

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

2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

3 tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading “he will not do,” rather than the Kethib of the MT (“do to him”).

4 tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

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

6 tn Heb “servants.”

7 tn 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.