1 Samuel 9:19

9:19 Samuel replied to Saul, “I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking. ¹ 

1 Samuel 12:3

12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. ²  Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, ³  and I will return it to you!”

1 Samuel 18:17

18:17 ⁴ Then Saul said to David, “Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior ⁵  for me and fight the battles of the Lord.” For Saul thought, “There’s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!”

1 Samuel 21:2

21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ ⁶  I have told my soldiers ⁷  to wait at a certain place. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 22:13

22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave ⁹  him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes ¹⁰  me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”

1 Samuel 25:34

25:34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives – he who has prevented me from harming you – if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”

1 Samuel 27:1

David Aligns Himself with the Philistines

27:1 David thought to himself, ¹¹  “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”

1 Samuel 29:6

29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you ¹²  serving ¹³  with me in the army. ¹⁴  I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion ¹⁵  of the leaders, you are not reliable. ¹⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

² tn Heb “anointed [one].”

³ tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tc Much of the ms evidence for the LXX lacks vv. 17-19.

⁵ tn Heb “son of valor.”

⁶ tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

⁷ tn Heb “servants.”

⁸ tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.

⁹ tn Heb “by giving.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “rises up against.”

¹¹ tn Heb “said to his heart.”

¹² tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.

¹³ tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.

¹⁴ tn Heb “camp.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “eyes.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “good.”