1 Samuel 10:19

10:19 But today you have rejected your God who saves you from all your trouble and distress. You have said, “No! ¹  Appoint a king over us.” Now take your positions before the Lord by your tribes and by your clans.’”

1 Samuel 12:7

12:7 Now take your positions, so I may confront you ²  before the Lord regarding all the Lord’s just actions toward you and your ancestors. ³ 

1 Samuel 14:19

14:19 While ⁴  Saul spoke to the priest, the panic in the Philistines’ camp was becoming greater and greater. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand!”

1 Samuel 23:4

23:4 So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”

1 Samuel 24:8

24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 25:30

25:30 The Lord will do for my lord everything that he promised you, ⁵  and he will make ⁶  you a leader over Israel.

[10:19]  ¹ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate in reading לֹא (lo’, “not”) rather than the MT לוֹ (lo; “to him”). Some witnesses combine the variants, resulting in a conflated text. For example, a few medieval Hebrew mss have לֹא לוֹ (lo lo’; “to him, ‘No.’”). A few others have לֹא לִי (li lo’; “to me, ‘No.’”).

[12:7]  ² tn Heb “and I will enter into judgment with you” (NRSV similar); NAB “and I shall arraign you.”

[12:7]  ³ tn Heb “all the just actions which he has done with you and with your fathers.”

[14:19]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps “until.”

[25:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to all which he spoke, the good concerning you.”

[25:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “appoint.”