1 Samuel 11:7

11:7 He took a pair ¹  of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. ² 

1 Samuel 28:1

The Witch of Endor

28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops ³  for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” ⁴ 

[11:7]  ¹ tn Heb “yoke.”

[11:7]  ² tn Heb “like one man.”

[28:1]  ³ tn Heb “their camps.”

[28:1]  ⁴ tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.