1 Samuel 2:11

2:11 Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of ¹  Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 20:16

20:16 and called David’s enemies to account.” So Jonathan made a covenant ²  with the house of David. ³ 

1 Samuel 20:28

20:28 Jonathan replied to Saul, “David urgently requested that he be allowed to go to Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 30:3

30:3 When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned. ⁴  Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

1 Samuel 30:18

30:18 David retrieved everything the Amalekites had taken; he ⁵  also rescued his two wives.

[2:11]  ¹ tn Heb “with [or “before”] the face of.”

[20:16]  ² tn Heb “cut.” The object of the verb (“covenant”) must be supplied.

[20:16]  ³ tn The word order is different in the Hebrew text, which reads “and Jonathan cut with the house of David, and the Lord will seek from the hand of the enemies of David.” The translation assumes that the main clauses of the verse have been accidentally transposed in the course of transmission. The first part of the verse (as it stands in MT) belongs with v. 17, while the second part of the verse actually continues v. 15.

[30:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and David and his men came to the city, and look, it was burned with fire.”

[30:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“he”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.