1 Samuel 6:17

6:17 These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the Lord – one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

1 Samuel 9:24

9:24 So the cook picked up the leg and brought it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel ¹  said, “What was kept is now set before you! Eat, for it has been kept for you for this meeting time, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

1 Samuel 10:21

10:21 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 17:25

17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so ²  to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”

1 Samuel 18:6

18:6 When the men ³  arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 19:20

19:20 So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw a company of prophets prophesying with Samuel standing there as their leader, the spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

1 Samuel 22:6

Saul Executes the Priests

22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. ⁵  Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.

1 Samuel 23:13

23:13 So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. ⁶  When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

1 Samuel 24:3-4

24:3 He came to the sheepfolds by the road, where there was a cave. Saul went into it to relieve himself. ⁷ 

Now David and his men were sitting in the recesses of the cave. 24:4 David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” ⁸  So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 24:6

24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, ⁹  by extending my hand against him. After all, ¹⁰  he is the Lord’s chosen one.” ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 25:29

25:29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag ¹²  of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!

1 Samuel 30:6

30:6 David was very upset, for the men ¹³  were thinking of stoning him; ¹⁴  each man grieved bitterly ¹⁵  over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.

1 Samuel 30:17

30:17 But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels. ¹⁶ 

[9:24]  ¹ tn Heb “he” (also in v. 25); the referent (Samuel) has been specified in both places in the translation for clarity.

[17:25]  ² tn Heb “he is coming up.”

[18:6]  ³ tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.

[18:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”

[22:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”

[23:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “they went where they went.”

[24:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “to cover his feet,” an idiom (euphemism) for relieving oneself (cf. NAB “to ease nature”).

[24:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”

[24:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “anointed.”

[24:6]  ¹⁰ tn Or “for.”

[24:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “anointed.”

[25:29]  ¹² tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”

[30:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “people.”

[30:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “said to stone him.”

[30:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”

[30:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “who rode on camels and fled.”