1 Samuel 10:3

10:3 “As you continue on from there, you will come to the tall tree of Tabor. At that point three men who are going up to God at Bethel ¹  will meet you. One of them will be carrying three young goats, one of them will be carrying three round loaves of bread, and one of them will be carrying a container of wine.

1 Samuel 17:12

17:12 ² Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ³  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 20:6

20:6 If your father happens to miss me, you should say, ‘David urgently requested me to let him go ⁵  to his city Bethlehem, ⁶  for there is an annual sacrifice there for his entire family.’

1 Samuel 20:34

20:34 Jonathan got up from the table enraged. He did not eat any food on that second day of the new moon, for he was upset that his father had humiliated David. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 22:13

22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave ⁸  him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes ⁹  me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ¹⁰  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ¹¹  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

1 Samuel 28:20

28:20 Saul quickly fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words. He was completely drained of energy, ¹²  not having eaten anything ¹³  all that day and night.

1 Samuel 30:12

30:12 They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, ¹⁴  for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

[10:3]  ¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[17:12]  ² tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

[17:12]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[17:12]  ⁴ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”

[20:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “to run.”

[20:6]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[20:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “for he was upset concerning David for his father had humiliated him.” The referent of the pronoun “him” is not entirely clear, but the phrase “concerning David” suggests that it refers to David, rather than Jonathan.

[22:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “by giving.”

[22:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “rises up against.”

[25:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “skins.”

[25:18]  ¹¹ sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.

[28:20]  ¹² tn Heb “also there was no strength in him.”

[28:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “food.”

[30:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “his spirit returned to him.”