1 Samuel 9:25
Context9:25 When they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.
1 Samuel 10:9
Context10:9 As Saul 1 turned 2 to leave Samuel, God changed his inmost person. 3 All these signs happened on that very day.
1 Samuel 10:26
Context10:26 Even Saul went to his home in Gibeah. With him went some brave men whose hearts God had touched.
1 Samuel 11:6
Context11:6 The Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and he became very angry.
1 Samuel 11:13
Context11:13 But Saul said, “No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!”
1 Samuel 13:1
Context13:1 Saul was [thirty] 4 years old when he began to reign; he ruled over Israel for [forty] 5 years.
1 Samuel 13:9
Context13:9 So Saul said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” Then he offered a burnt offering.
1 Samuel 14:18
Context14:18 So Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring near the ephod,” 6 for he was at that time wearing the ephod. 7
1 Samuel 14:21
Context14:21 The Hebrews who had earlier gone over to the Philistine side 8 joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
1 Samuel 14:38
Context14:38 Then Saul said, “All you leaders of the army come here. Find out 9 how this sin occurred today.
1 Samuel 14:42
Context14:42 Then Saul said, “Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan!” 10 Jonathan was indicated by lot.
1 Samuel 14:51
Context14:51 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son 11 of Abiel.
1 Samuel 15:7
Context15:7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to 12 Shur, which is next to Egypt.
1 Samuel 16:14-15
Context16:14 Now the Spirit of the Lord had turned away from Saul, and an evil spirit 13 from the Lord tormented him. 16:15 Then Saul’s servants said to him, “Look, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you!”
1 Samuel 16:17
Context16:17 So Saul said to his servants, “Find 14 me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”
1 Samuel 16:19
Context16:19 So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is out with the sheep.
1 Samuel 16:22
Context16:22 Then Saul sent word to Jesse saying, “Let David be my servant, for I really like him.” 15
1 Samuel 17:11
Context17:11 When Saul and all the Israelites 16 heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.
1 Samuel 17:15
Context17:15 David was going back and forth 17 from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 17:19
Context17:19 They are with Saul and the whole Israelite army 18 in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 17:32
Context17:32 David said to Saul, “Don’t let anyone be discouraged. 19 Your servant will go and fight this Philistine!”
1 Samuel 18:2
Context18:2 Saul retained David 20 on that day and did not allow him to return to his father’s house.
1 Samuel 18:7
Context18:7 The women who were playing the music sang,
“Saul has struck down his thousands,
but David his tens of thousands!”
1 Samuel 20:32
Context20:32 Jonathan responded to his father Saul, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
1 Samuel 21:10
Context21:10 So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath.
1 Samuel 23:8-9
Context23:8 So Saul mustered all his army to go down to Keilah and besiege David and his men. 21
23:9 When David realized that Saul was planning to harm him, 22 he told Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod!”
1 Samuel 23:16
Context23:16 Then Jonathan son of Saul left and went to David at Horesh. He encouraged him 23 through God.
1 Samuel 23:28
Context23:28 So Saul stopped pursuing David and went to confront the Philistines. Therefore that place is called Sela Hammahlekoth. 24
1 Samuel 24:1
Context24:1 (24:2) When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, “Look, David is in the desert of En Gedi.”
1 Samuel 24:5
Context24:5 Afterward David’s conscience bothered him 25 because he had cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.
1 Samuel 24:9
Context24:9 David said to Saul, “Why do you pay attention when men say, ‘David is seeking to do you harm’?
1 Samuel 25:44
Context25:44 (Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.)
1 Samuel 27:4
Context27:4 When Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he did not mount a new search for him.
1 Samuel 28:4
Context28:4 The Philistines assembled; they came and camped at Shunem. Saul mustered all Israel and camped at Gilboa.
1 Samuel 28:25
Context28:25 She brought it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and left that same night.
1 Samuel 31:3
Context31:3 Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; 26 the archers 27 spotted him and wounded him severely.
1 Samuel 31:5
Context31:5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “turned his shoulder.”
3 tn Heb “God turned for him another heart”; NAB, NRSV “gave him another heart”; NIV, NCV “changed Saul’s heart”; TEV “gave Saul a new nature”; CEV “made Saul feel like a different person.”
4 tc The MT does not have “thirty.” A number appears to have dropped out of the Hebrew text here, since as it stands the MT (literally, “a son of a year”) must mean that Saul was only one year old when he began to reign! The KJV, attempting to resolve this, reads “Saul reigned one year,” but that is not the normal meaning of the Hebrew text represented by the MT. Although most LXX
5 tc The MT has “two years” here. If this number is to be accepted as correct, the meaning apparently would be that after a lapse of two years at the beginning of Saul’s reign, he then went about the task of consolidating an army as described in what follows (cf. KJV, ASV, CEV). But if the statement in v. 1 is intended to be a comprehensive report on the length of Saul’s reign, the number is too small. According to Acts 13:21 Saul reigned for forty years. Some English versions (e.g., NIV, NCV, NLT), taking this forty to be a round number, add it to the “two years” of the MT and translate the number in 2 Sam 13:1 as “forty-two years.” While this is an acceptable option, the present translation instead replaces the MT’s “two” with the figure “forty.” Admittedly the textual evidence for this decision is weak, but the same can be said of any attempt to restore sense to this difficult text (note the ellipsis marks at this point in NAB, NRSV). The Syriac Peshitta lacks this part of v. 1.
6 tc Heb “the ark of God.” It seems unlikely that Saul would call for the ark, which was several miles away in Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Sam 7:2). The LXX and an Old Latin
7 tc Heb “for the ark of God was in that day, and the sons of Israel.” The translation follows the text of some Greek manuscripts. See the previous note.
8 tn Heb “and the Hebrews were to the Philistines formerly, who went up with them in the camp all around.”
9 tn Heb “know and see.”
10 tc The LXX includes the following words: “Whomever the Lord will indicate by the lot, let him die! And the people said to Saul, ‘It is not this word.’ But Saul prevailed over the people, and they cast lots between him and between Jonathan his son.”
11 tn 1 Chr 9:35-36 indicates that Jeiel (= Abiel?) had two sons (among others) named Ner and Kish (see also 1 Sam 9:1 and 1 Chr 8:30, where some Greek manuscripts include the name Ner, though it is absent in the Hebrew text). If this Kish was the father of Saul and Ner was the father of Abner, then Saul and Abner were cousins. However, according to 1 Chr 8:33 and 9:39, Ner, not Abiel, was the father of Kish. In this case, Kish and Abner were brothers and Abner was Saul’s uncle. The simplest solution to the problem is to see two men named Kish in the genealogy: Abiel (Jeiel) was the father of Ner and Kish I. Ner was the father of Abner and Kish II. Kish II was the father of Saul. The Kish mentioned in 1 Sam 9:1 was the father of Saul (v.2) and must be identified as Kish II. In this case the genealogy is “gapped,” with Ner being omitted. Abiel was the grandfather of Kish II.
12 tn Heb “[as] you enter.”
13 tn Or “an injurious spirit”; cf. NLT “a tormenting spirit.” The phrase need not refer to an evil, demonic spirit. The Hebrew word translated “evil” may refer to the character of the spirit or to its effect upon Saul. If the latter, another translation option might be “a mischief-making spirit.”
14 tn Heb “see.”
15 tn Heb “Let David stand before me, for he has found favor in my eyes.”
16 tn Heb “all Israel.”
17 tn Heb “was going and returning.”
18 tn Heb “all the men of Israel.”
19 tn Heb “Let not the heart of a man fall upon him.” The LXX reads “my lord,” instead of “a man.”
20 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Heb “So Saul mustered all his army for battle to go down to Keilah to besiege against David and his men.”
22 tn Heb “Saul was planning the evil against him.”
23 tn Heb “strengthened his hand.”
24 sn The name הַמַּחְלְקוֹת סֶלַע (Sela Hammakhleqoth) probably means “Rock of Divisions” in Hebrew, in the sense that Saul and David parted company there (cf. NAB “Gorge of Divisions”; TEV “Separation Hill”). This etymology assumes that the word derives from the Hebrew root II חלק (khlq, “to divide”; HALOT 322 s.v. II חלק). However, there is another root I חלק, which means “to be smooth or slippery” (HALOT 322 s.v. I חלק). If the word is taken from this root, the expression would mean “Slippery Rock.”
25 tn Heb “the heart of David struck him.”
26 tn Heb “and the battle was heavy against Saul.”
27 tn Heb “the shooters, men with the bow.”