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 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. 2
1 Samuel 15:6
15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away 3 with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 21:5-6
21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ 4 equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.
1 Samuel 23:26
23:26 Saul went on one side of the mountain, while David and his men went on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, but Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men so they could capture them.
1 Samuel 24:6
24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, 5 by extending my hand against him. After all, 6 he is the Lord’s chosen one.” 7
1 Samuel 25:29
25:29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag 8 of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!
1 Samuel 26:20
26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge 9 in the hill country.”
1 Samuel 27:1
David Aligns Himself with the Philistines
27:1 David thought to himself, 10 “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”
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.”
1 Samuel 30:22
30:22 But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Since they didn’t go with us, 11 we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”
1 tc The LXX and a Qumran ms add “the covenant of the Lord.”
2 tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”
3 tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסִפְךָ (’esfÿka, “I sweep you away,” from the root ספה [sfh]) rather than the MT אֹסִפְךָ (’osifÿka, “I am gathering you,” from the root אסף[’sf]).
4 tn Heb “servants’.”
5 tn Heb “anointed.”
6 tn Or “for.”
7 tn Heb “anointed.”
8 tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”
9 tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.
10 tn Heb “said to his heart.”
11 tc Heb “with me.” The singular is used rather than the plural because the group is being treated as a singular entity, in keeping with Hebrew idiom. It is not necessary to read “with us,” rather than the MT “with me,” although the plural can be found here in a few medieval Hebrew mss. See also the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate, although these versions may simply reflect an understanding of the idiom as found in the MT rather than a different textual reading.