1 Samuel 9:27
9:27 While they were going down to the edge of town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” So he did. 1 Samuel then said, 2 “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”
1 Samuel 14:6
14:6 Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will intervene 3 for us. Nothing can prevent the Lord from delivering, whether by many or by a few.”
1 Samuel 14:12
14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” 4 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 5 them into the hand of Israel!”
1 Samuel 16:16
16:16 Let our lord instruct his servants who are here before you to look for a man who knows how to play the lyre. Then whenever the evil spirit from God comes upon you, he can play the lyre 6 and you will feel better.” 7
1 Samuel 17:25
17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so 8 to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:39
17:39 David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire and tried to walk around, but he was not used to them. 9 David said to Saul, “I can’t walk in these things, for I’m not used to them.” So David removed them.
1 Samuel 18:25
18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his 10 enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)
1 Samuel 20:13
20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know 11 and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. 12 May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.
1 Samuel 24:4
24:4 David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” 13 So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.
1 Samuel 27:11
27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time 14 that he lived in the country of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 30:15
30:15 David said to him, “Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”
1 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin ms, and the Syriac Peshitta.
2 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “act.”
4 tn Heb “a thing.”
5 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
6 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
7 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
8 tn Heb “he is coming up.”
9 tn Heb “he had not tested.”
10 tn Heb “the king’s.”
11 tn Heb “uncover your ear.”
12 tn Heb “in peace.”
13 tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”
14 tn Heb “all the days.”