1 Samuel 6:5

6:5 You should make images of the sores and images of the mice ¹  that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land. ² 

1 Samuel 6:20

6:20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark ³  go up from here?”

1 Samuel 10:9

Saul Becomes King

10:9 As Saul ⁴  turned ⁵  to leave Samuel, God changed his inmost person. ⁶  All these signs happened on that very day.

1 Samuel 14:52

14:52 There was fierce war with the Philistines all the days of Saul. So whenever Saul saw anyone who was a warrior or a brave individual, he would conscript him.

1 Samuel 15:35

15:35 Until the day he ⁷  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 18:1

Saul Comes to Fear David

18:1 When David ⁸  had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. ⁹  Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life. ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 18:26

18:26 So his servants told David these things and David agreed ¹¹  to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired ¹² 

1 Samuel 19:22

19:22 Finally Saul ¹³  himself went to Ramah. When he arrived at the large cistern that is in Secu, he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” They said, “At Naioth in Ramah.”

1 Samuel 22:14

22:14 Ahimelech replied to the king, “Who among all your servants is faithful like David? He is the king’s son-in-law, the leader of your bodyguard, and honored in your house!

1 Samuel 22:19

22:19 As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep – all with the sword.

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. ¹⁴  David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ¹⁵  David and his men in the region of ¹⁶  the rocks of the mountain goats. ¹⁷ 

1 Samuel 25:42

25:42 Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. ¹⁸  She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 27:8

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach ¹⁹  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

1 Samuel 28:22

28:22 Now it’s your turn to listen to your servant! Let me set before you a bit of bread so that you can eat. When you regain your strength, you can go on your way.”

[6:5]  ¹ tn Heb “your mice.” A Qumran ms has simply “the mice.”

[6:5]  ² tn Heb “Perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.”

[6:20]  ³ tn Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the Lord himself.

[10:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “turned his shoulder.”

[10:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “God turned for him another heart”; NAB, NRSV “gave him another heart”; NIV, NCV “changed Saul’s heart”; TEV “gave Saul a new nature”; CEV “made Saul feel like a different person.”

[15:35]  ⁷ tn That is, Samuel.

[18:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”

[18:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “like his [own] soul.”

[18:1]  sn On the nature of Jonathan’s love for David, see J. A. Thompson, “The Significance of the Verb Love in the David-Jonathan Narratives in 1 Samuel,” VT 24 (1974): 334-38.

[18:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and it was acceptable in the eyes of David.”

[18:26]  ¹² tn Heb “the days were not fulfilled.”

[19:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “he” (also in v. 23). the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”

[24:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ¹⁷ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

[25:42]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “going at her feet.”

[27:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “from where you come.”