1 Samuel 15:12

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where ¹  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ²  and went down to Gilgal.” ³ 

1 Samuel 17:20

17:20 So David got up early in the morning and entrusted the flock to someone else who would watch over it. ⁴  After loading up, he went just as Jesse had instructed him. He arrived at the camp ⁵  as the army was going out to the battle lines shouting its battle cry.

1 Samuel 21:5

21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ ⁶  equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”

1 Samuel 23:14

23:14 David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, ⁷  but God did not deliver David ⁸  into his hand.

1 Samuel 27:7

27:7 The length of time ⁹  that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year ¹⁰  and four months.

[15:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and look.”

[15:12]  ² tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

[15:12]  ³ tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”

[17:20]  ⁴ 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.”

[17:20]  ⁵ tn Or “entrenchment.”

[21:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “servants’.”

[23:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “all the days.”

[23:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the number of the days.”

[27:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “days.” The plural of the word “day” is sometimes used idiomatically to refer specifically to a year. In addition to this occurrence in v. 7 see also 1 Sam 1:3, 21; 2:19; 20:6; Lev 25:29; Judg 17:10.