1 Samuel 15:18

15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign ¹  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you ²  have destroyed them.’

1 Samuel 17:12

17:12 ³ Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ⁴  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ⁵ 

[15:18]  ¹ tn Heb “journey.”

[15:18]  ² tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).

[17:12]  ³ tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

[17:12]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[17:12]  ⁵ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”