1 Samuel 6:13

6:13 Now the residents of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were pleased at the sight.

1 Samuel 15:35

15:35 Until the day he ¹  died Samuel did not see Saul again. Samuel did, however, mourn for Saul, but the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 18:11

18:11 and Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.

1 Samuel 22:2

22:2 All those who were in trouble or owed someone money or were discontented ²  gathered around ³  him, and he became their leader. He had about four hundred men with him.

1 Samuel 25:37

25:37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, ⁴  his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ⁶  “He is really hated ⁷  among his own people in ⁸  Israel! From now on ⁹  he will be my servant.”

[15:35]  ¹ tn That is, Samuel.

[22:2]  ² tn Heb “bitter of soul.”

[22:2]  ³ tn Heb “to.”

[25:37]  ⁴ tn Heb “when the wine had gone out from Nabal.”

[25:37]  ⁵ tn Heb “and his heart died within him and he became a stone.” Cf. TEV, NLT “stroke”; CEV “heart attack.” For an alternative interpretation than that presented above, see Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, “The Law of the Heart: The Death of a Fool (1 Samuel 25),” JBL 120 (2001): 401-27, who argues that a medical diagnosis is not necessary here. Instead, the passage makes a connection between the heart and the law; Nabal dies for his lawlessness.

[27:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “saying.”

[27:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

[27:12]  ⁸ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

[27:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “permanently.”