1 Samuel 2:16
Context2:16 If the individual said to him, “First let the fat be burned away, and then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say, “No! 1 Hand it over right now! If you don’t, I will take it forcibly!”
1 Samuel 19:11
Context19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself 2 tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
1 Samuel 20:8
Context20:8 You must be loyal 3 to your servant, for you have made a covenant with your servant in the Lord’s name. 4 If I am guilty, 5 you yourself kill me! Why bother taking me to your father?”
1 Samuel 21:1
Context21:1 (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met 6 David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”
1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
2 tn Heb “your life.”
3 tn Heb “and you must do loyalty.”
4 tn Heb “for into a covenant of the
5 tn Heb “and if there is in me guilt.”
6 tn Heb “trembled to meet.”