1 Samuel 14:45

14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. ¹ 

1 Samuel 14:30

14:30 Certainly if the army had eaten some of the enemies’ provisions that they came across today, would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”

1 Samuel 30:18

30:18 David retrieved everything the Amalekites had taken; he ²  also rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 26:9

26:9 But David said to Abishai, “Don’t kill him! Who can extend his hand against the Lord’s chosen one ³  and remain guiltless?”

1 Samuel 17:25

17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so ⁴  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 14:48

14:48 He fought bravely, striking down the Amalekites and delivering Israel from the hand of its enemies. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 23:5

23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. ⁶  David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 2:8

2:8 He lifts the weak ⁷  from the dust;

he raises ⁸  the poor from the ash heap

to seat them with princes

and to bestow on them an honored position. ⁹ 

The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord,

and he has placed the world on them.

1 Samuel 7:3

7:3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. ¹⁰  Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you ¹¹  from the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 10:18

10:18 He said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt and I delivered you from the power ¹²  of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.

1 Samuel 30:8

30:8 David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Should I pursue this raiding band? Will I overtake them?” He said to him, “Pursue, for you will certainly overtake them and carry out a rescue!”

[14:45]  ¹ tn Heb “and he did not die.”

[30:18]  ² tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“he”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[26:9]  ³ tn Heb “anointed” (also in vv. 11, 16, 23).

[17:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “he is coming up.”

[14:48]  ⁵ tn Heb “plunderers.”

[23:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”

[2:8]  ⁷ tn Or “lowly”; Heb “insignificant.”

[2:8]  ⁸ tn The imperfect verbal form, which is parallel to the participle in the preceding line, is best understood here as indicating what typically happens.

[2:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “a seat of honor.”

[7:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity.

[7:3]  sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. The presence of Ashtarot in Israel is a sign of pervasive pagan and idolatrous influences; hence Samuel calls for their removal. See 1 Sam 31:10, where the Philistines deposit the armor of the deceased Saul in the temple of the Ashtarot, and 1 Kgs 11:5, 33; 2 Kgs 23:13, where Solomon is faulted for worshiping the Ashtarot.

[7:3]  ¹¹ tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

[10:18]  ¹² tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).