1 Samuel 8:5

8:5 They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead¹ us, just like all the other nations have.”

1 Samuel 8:8

8:8 Just as they have done² from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.

1 Samuel 14:4

14:4 Now there was a steep cliff on each side of the pass through which Jonathan intended to go to reach the Philistine garrison. One cliff was named Bozez, the other Seneh.

1 Samuel 14:40

14:40 Then he said to all Israel, “You will be on one side, and I and my son Jonathan will be on the other side.” The army replied to Saul, “Do whatever you think is best.”

1 Samuel 20:22

20:22 But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’³ get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 20:41

20:41 When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound,⁴ knelt⁵ with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

1 Samuel 28:8

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.”⁶

¹tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).

²tn Heb “according to all the deeds which they have done.”

³tn Heb “from you and onward.”

⁴tc The translation follows the LXX in reading “the mound,” rather than the MT’s “the south.” It is hard to see what meaning the MT reading “from beside the south” would have as it stands, since such a location lacks specificity. The NIV treats it as an elliptical expression, rendering the phrase as “from the south side of the stone (rock NCV).” This is perhaps possible, but it seems better to follow the LXX rather than the MT here.

⁵tn Heb “fell.”

⁶tn Heb “Use divination for me with the ritual pit and bring up for me the one whom I say to you.”