1 Samuel 6:4
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 6:9
6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”
1 Samuel 9:6
9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. 1 Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” 2
1 Samuel 10:2
10:2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! 3 He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
1 Samuel 11:7
11:7 He took a pair 4 of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. 5
1 Samuel 11:9
11:9 They said to the messengers who had come, “Here’s what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: ‘Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.’” When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy.
1 Samuel 14:45
14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 6
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 his 7 enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)
1 Samuel 19:4
19:4 So Jonathan spoke on David’s behalf 8 to his father Saul. He said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial 9 for you.
1 Samuel 22:15
22:15 Was it just today that I began to inquire of God on his behalf? Far be it from me! The king should not accuse 10 his servant or any of my father’s house. For your servant is not aware of all this – not in whole or in part!” 11
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 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.
2 tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”
3 sn In the Hebrew text the pronoun you is plural, suggesting that Saul’s father was concerned about his son and the servant who accompanied him.
4 tn Heb “yoke.”
5 tn Heb “like one man.”
6 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
7 tn Heb “the king’s.”
8 tn Heb “spoke good with respect to David.”
9 tn Heb “good.”
10 tn Heb “set a matter against.”
11 tn Heb “small or great.”