1 Samuel 7:16

7:16 Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel, ¹  Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. ²  When he arrived in Bethlehem, ³  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They ⁴  said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 17:12

17:12 ⁵ Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ⁶  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 17:58

17:58 Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David replied, “I am the son of your servant Jesse in Bethlehem.” ⁸ 

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² tn Heb “said.”

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⁴ tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

⁵ tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

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⁷ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”

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