1 Samuel 6:15

6:15 The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.

1 Samuel 20:21

20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; ¹  get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

1 Samuel 20:41

20:41 When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, ²  knelt ³  with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

1 Samuel 21:2

21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ ⁴  I have told my soldiers ⁵  to wait at a certain place. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 21:5

21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ ⁷  equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”

1 Samuel 23:3

23:3 But David’s men said to him, “We are afraid while we are still here in Judah! What will it be like if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

1 Samuel 28:19

28:19 The Lord will hand you and Israel over to the Philistines! ⁸  Tomorrow both you and your sons will be with me. ⁹  The Lord will also hand the army ¹⁰  of Israel over to the Philistines!”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ¹¹  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ¹²  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

1 Samuel 30:26

30:26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah who were his friends, saying, “Here’s a gift ¹³  for you from the looting of the Lord’s enemies!”

[20:21]  ¹ tn Heb “from you and here.”

[20:41]  ² tc The translation follows the LXX in reading “the mound,” rather than the MT’s “the south.” It is hard to see what meaning the MT reading “from beside the south” would have as it stands, since such a location lacks specificity. The NIV treats it as an elliptical expression, rendering the phrase as “from the south side of the stone (rock NCV).” This is perhaps possible, but it seems better to follow the LXX rather than the MT here.

[20:41]  ³ tn Heb “fell.”

[21:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

[21:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “servants.”

[21:2]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.

[21:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “servants’.”

[28:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “And the Lord will give also Israel along with you into the hand of the Philistines.”

[28:19]  ⁹ tc With the exception of the Lucianic recension, the LXX has here “and tomorrow you and your sons with you will fall.”

[28:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “camp.”

[30:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:16]  ¹² tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”

[30:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “blessing.”