1 Samuel 5:11
Context5:11 So they assembled 1 all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us 2 and our 3 people!” The terror 4 of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. 5
1 Samuel 6:9
Context6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”
1 Samuel 10:21
Context10:21 Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of Matri was chosen by lot. At last Saul son of Kish was chosen by lot. But when they looked for him, he was nowhere to be found.
1 Samuel 17:20
Context17:20 So David got up early in the morning and entrusted the flock to someone else who would watch over it. 6 After loading up, he went just as Jesse had instructed him. He arrived at the camp 7 as the army was going out to the battle lines shouting its battle cry.
1 tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”
2 tn Heb “me.”
3 tn Heb “my.”
4 tn Or “panic.”
5 tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”
6 tn Heb “to a guard”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “with a keeper”; NIV “with a shepherd.” Since in contemporary English “guard” sounds like someone at a military installation or a prison, the present translation uses “to someone else who would watch over it.”
7 tn Or “entrenchment.”