1 Samuel 9:5

9:5 When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come on, let’s head back before my father quits worrying about the donkeys and becomes anxious about us!”

1 Samuel 9:20

9:20 Don’t be concerned ¹  about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” ² 

1 Samuel 10:14

10:14 Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” Saul ³  replied, “To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, ⁴  we went to Samuel.”

1 Samuel 10:16

10:16 Saul said to his uncle, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But Saul ⁵  did not tell him what Samuel had said about the matter of kingship.

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ⁶  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ⁷  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

1 Samuel 27:9

27:9 When David would attack a district, ⁸  he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.

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¹ tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”

² tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “And we saw that they were not.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “skins.”

⁷ sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.

⁸ tn Heb “the land.”