1 Samuel 6:8
6:8 Then take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way.
1 Samuel 8:11
8:11 He said, “Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.
1 Samuel 14:28
14:28 Then someone from the army informed him, “Your father put the army under a strict oath 1 saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.”
1 Samuel 15:3
15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare 2 them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
1 Samuel 28:8-9
28:8 So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing and left, accompanied by two of his men. They came to the woman at night and said, “Use your ritual pit to conjure up for me the one I tell you.” 3
28:9 But the woman said to him, “Look, you are aware of what Saul has done; he has removed 4 the mediums and magicians 5 from the land! Why are you trapping me 6 so you can put me to death?”
1 tn Heb “your father surely put the army under an oath.” The infinitive absolute is used before the finite verb to emphasize the solemn nature of the oath.
2 tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).
3 tn Heb “Use divination for me with the ritual pit and bring up for me the one whom I say to you.”
4 tn Heb “how he has cut off.”
5 tn See the note at v. 3.
6 tn Heb “my life.”