1 Samuel 6:12

6:12 Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along, mooing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.

1 Samuel 9:2

9:2 He had a son named Saul, a handsome young man. There was no one among the Israelites more handsome than he was; he stood head and shoulders above all the people.

1 Samuel 9:12

9:12 They replied, “Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.

1 Samuel 9:21

9:21 Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel’s tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?”

1 Samuel 11:11

11:11 The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them ¹  down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.

1 Samuel 17:26

17:26 David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? ²  For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”

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. ³  When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

1 Samuel 25:21

25:21 Now David had been thinking, ⁴  “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

1 Samuel 25:31

25:31 Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt ⁵  for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, ⁶  please remember your servant.”

1 Samuel 26:8

26:8 Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me drive the spear ⁷  right through him into the ground with one swift jab! ⁸  A second jab won’t be necessary!”

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. ⁹ 

[11:11]  ¹ tn Heb “Ammon.” By metonymy the name “Ammon” is used collectively for the soldiers in the Ammonite army.

[17:26]  ² tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”

[23:13]  ³ tn Heb “they went where they went.”

[25:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “said.”

[25:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “and this will not be for you for staggering and for stumbling of the heart of my lord.”

[25:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the Lord will do well for my lord.”

[26:8]  ⁷ tn Here “the spear” almost certainly refers to Saul’s own spear, which according to the previous verse was stuck into the ground beside him as he slept. This is reflected in a number of English versions: TEV, CEV “his own spear”; NLT “that spear.” Cf. NIV, NCV “my spear,” in which case Abishai refers to his own spear rather than Saul’s, but this is unlikely since (1) Abishai would probably not have carried a spear along since such a weapon would be unwieldy when sneaking into the enemy camp; and (2) this would not explain the mention of Saul’s own spear stuck in the ground beside him in the previous verse.

[26:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “let me strike him with the spear and into the ground one time.”

[30:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “who rode on camels and fled.”