1 Samuel 13:12

13:12 I thought, ¹  ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated ²  to offer the burnt offering.”

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ³  “He is really hated ⁴  among his own people in ⁵  Israel! From now on ⁶  he will be my servant.”

[13:12]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[13:12]  ² tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”

[27:12]  ³ tn Heb “saying.”

[27:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

[27:12]  ⁵ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

[27:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “permanently.”