1 Samuel 6:7

6:7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

1 Samuel 13:3

13:3 Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost ¹  that was at Geba and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul alerted ²  all the land saying, “Let the Hebrews pay attention!”

1 Samuel 13:11

13:11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the army had started to abandon me ³  and that you didn’t come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash,

1 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ⁴  for himself a man who is loyal to him ⁵  and the Lord has appointed ⁶  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 14:6

14:6 Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will intervene ⁷  for us. Nothing can prevent the Lord from delivering, whether by many or by a few.”

1 Samuel 14:27

14:27 But Jonathan had not heard about the oath his father had made the army take. He extended the end of his staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he ate it, ⁸  his eyes gleamed. ⁹ 

1 Samuel 19:5

19:5 He risked his life ¹⁰  when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”

1 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Taking an oath, David again ¹¹  said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact ¹²  that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, ¹³  ‘Don’t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.’ But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!”

1 Samuel 20:27

20:27 But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David’s place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why has Jesse’s son not come to the meal yesterday or today?”

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.’ ¹⁴  I have told my soldiers ¹⁵  to wait at a certain place. ¹⁶ 

1 Samuel 23:17

23:17 He said to him, “Don’t be afraid! For the hand of my father Saul cannot find you. You will rule over Israel, and I will be your second in command. Even my father Saul realizes this.”

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ¹⁷  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ¹⁸  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ¹⁹  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ²⁰  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

[13:3]  ¹ tn Or perhaps “struck down the Philistine official.” See the note at 1 Sam 10:5. Cf. TEV “killed the Philistine commander.”

[13:3]  ² tn Heb “blew the ram’s horn in.”

[13:11]  ³ tn Heb “dispersed from upon me.”

[13:14]  ⁴ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

[13:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

[13:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “commanded.”

[14:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “act.”

[14:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he returned his hand to his mouth.”

[14:27]  ⁹ tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading “gleamed,” rather than the Kethib, “saw.”

[19:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”

[20:3]  ¹¹ tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”

[20:3]  ¹² tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[20:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.

[21:2]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “servants.”

[21:2]  ¹⁶ 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.

[26:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”

[30:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”