1 Samuel 7:2

Further Conflict with the Philistines

7:2 It was quite a long time – some twenty years in all – that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people ¹  of Israel longed for ²  the Lord.

1 Samuel 13:16

13:16 Saul, his son Jonathan, and the army that remained with them stayed in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped in Micmash. ³ 

1 Samuel 22:4

22:4 So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time ⁴  that David was in the stronghold.

1 Samuel 23:18

23:18 When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.

1 Samuel 30:9-10

30:9 So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there. ⁵  30:10 David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.

1 Samuel 31:2

31:2 The Philistines stayed right on the heels ⁶  of Saul and his sons. They ⁷  struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.

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¹ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

² tn Heb “mourned after”; NIV “mourned and sought after”; KJV, NRSV “lamented after”; NAB “turned to”; NCV “began to follow…again.”

³ tn The juxtaposition of disjunctive clauses in v.16 indicates synchronic action.

⁴ tn Heb “all the days.”

⁵ tn Heb “stood.” So also in v. 10.

⁶ tn Heb “stuck close after.”

⁷ tn Heb “the Philistines.”