1 Samuel 10:27
Context10:27 But some wicked men 1 said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. 2
1 Samuel 15:13
Context15:13 When Samuel came to him, 3 Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”
1 tn Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12).
2 tc In place of the MT (“and it was like one being silent”) the LXX has “after about a month,” taking the expression with the first part of the following chapter rather than with 10:27. Some Hebrew support for this reading appears in the corrected hand of a Qumran
3 tn Heb “to Saul.”