1 Samuel 13:19

13:19 A blacksmith could not be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, “This will prevent the Hebrews from making swords and spears.”

1 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers ¹  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” ² 

1 Samuel 23:14

23:14 David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, ³  but God did not deliver David ⁴  into his hand.

1 Samuel 24:12

24:12 May the Lord judge between the two of us, and may the Lord vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.

1 Samuel 24:22

24:22 David promised Saul this on oath. ⁵  Then Saul went to his house, and David and his men went up to the stronghold.

1 Samuel 25:15

25:15 These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together ⁶  in the field.

1 Samuel 28:24

28:24 Now the woman ⁷  had a well-fed calf ⁸  at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

1 Samuel 30:19

30:19 There was nothing missing, whether small or great. He retrieved sons and daughters, the plunder, and everything else they had taken. ⁹  David brought everything back.

[21:4]  ¹ tn Heb “servants.”

[21:4]  ² tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”

[23:14]  ³ tn Heb “all the days.”

[23:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “and David swore an oath to Saul.”

[25:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “all the days we walked about with them when we were.”

[28:24]  ⁷ sn Masoretic mss of the Hebrew Bible mark this word as the half-way point in the book of Samuel, treating 1 and 2 Samuel as a single book. Similar notations are found at the midway point for all of the books of the Hebrew Bible.

[28:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “a calf of the stall.”

[30:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “there was nothing missing to them, from the small even unto the great, and unto sons and daughters, and from loot even unto all which they had taken for themselves.”