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 16:1

Samuel Anoints David as King

16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. 2  Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, 3  for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.” 4 

1 Samuel 20:21

20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; 5  get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

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 28:15

28:15 Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul replied, “I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me – not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do.”

1 Samuel 29:8

29:8 But David said to Achish, “What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”

1 tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

2 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”

3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

4 tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”

5 tn Heb “from you and here.”

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.