1 Samuel 16:19

16:19 So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is out with the sheep.

1 Samuel 19:21

19:21 When it was reported to Saul, he sent more messengers, but they prophesied too. So Saul sent messengers a third time, but they also prophesied.

1 Samuel 20:20

20:20 I will shoot three arrows near it, as though I were shooting at a target.

1 Samuel 19:14

19:14 When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, “He’s sick.”

1 Samuel 20:22

20:22 But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ ¹  get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 25:32

25:32 Then David said to Abigail, “Praised ²  be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!

1 Samuel 26:4

26:4 David sent scouts and verified that Saul had indeed arrived. ³ 

1 Samuel 5:11

5:11 So they assembled ⁴  all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us ⁵  and our ⁶  people!” The terror ⁷  of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 6:3

6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of ⁹  the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand is not removed from you.”

1 Samuel 19:17

19:17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!” Michal replied to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away or else I will kill you!’” ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 6:2

6:2 the Philistines called the priests and the omen readers, saying, “What should we do with the ark of the Lord? Advise us as to how we should send it back to its place.”

1 Samuel 6:6

6:6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? ¹¹  When God ¹²  treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way? ¹³ 

1 Samuel 6:21

6:21 So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.”

1 Samuel 12:11

12:11 So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, ¹⁴  Barak, ¹⁵  Jephthah, and Samuel, ¹⁶  and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.

1 Samuel 15:1

Saul Is Rejected as King

15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. ¹⁷ 

1 Samuel 15:18

15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign ¹⁸  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you ¹⁹  have destroyed them.’

1 Samuel 16:12

16:12 So Jesse had him brought in. ²⁰  Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, “Go and anoint him. This is the one!”

1 Samuel 16:20

16:20 So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat ²¹  and sent them to Saul with ²²  his son David.

1 Samuel 16:22

16:22 Then Saul sent word to Jesse saying, “Let David be my servant, for I really like him.” ²³ 

1 Samuel 19:15

19:15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”

1 Samuel 24:19

24:19 Now if a man finds his enemy, does he send him on his way in good shape? May the Lord repay you with good this day for what you have done to me.

1 Samuel 25:5

25:5 he ²⁴  sent ten servants, ²⁵  saying to them, ²⁶  “Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name. ²⁷ 

1 Samuel 25:14

25:14 But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet ²⁸  our lord, but he screamed at them.

1 Samuel 25:40

25:40 So the servants of David went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, “David has sent us to you to bring you back to be his wife.”

1 Samuel 26:9

26:9 But David said to Abishai, “Don’t kill him! Who can extend his hand against the Lord’s chosen one ²⁹  and remain guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:23

26:23 The Lord rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty. ³⁰  Even though today the Lord delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the Lord’s chosen one.

1 Samuel 30:26

30:26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah who were his friends, saying, “Here’s a gift ³¹  for you from the looting of the Lord’s enemies!”

1 Samuel 31:9

31:9 They cut off Saul’s ³²  head and stripped him of his armor. They sent messengers to announce the news in the temple of their idols and among their people throughout the surrounding land of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 4:4

4:4 So the army ³³  sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Samuel 5:8

5:8 So they assembled ³⁴  all the leaders of the Philistines and asked, “What should we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They replied, “The ark of the God of Israel should be moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.

1 Samuel 5:10

5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.

But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here ³⁵  to kill our ³⁶  people!”

1 Samuel 6:8

6:8 Then take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way.

1 Samuel 9:16

9:16 “At this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must consecrate ³⁷  him as a leader over my people Israel. He will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked with favor on my people. Their cry has reached me!”

1 Samuel 9:19

9:19 Samuel replied to Saul, “I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking. ³⁸ 

1 Samuel 9:26

9:26 They got up at dawn and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, so I can send you on your way.” So Saul got up and the two of them – he and Samuel – went outside.

1 Samuel 10:25

10:25 Then Samuel talked to the people about how the kingship would work. ³⁹  He wrote it all down on a scroll and set it before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away to their homes.

1 Samuel 11:3

11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.”

1 Samuel 11:7

11:7 He took a pair ⁴⁰  of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. ⁴¹ 

1 Samuel 12:8

12:8 When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the Lord. The Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

1 Samuel 13:2

13:2 Saul selected for himself three thousand men from Israel. Two thousand of these were with Saul at Micmash and in the hill country of Bethel; ⁴²  the remaining thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. ⁴³  He sent all the rest of the people back home. ⁴⁴ 

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, ⁴⁵  his eyes gleamed. ⁴⁶ 

1 Samuel 15:20

15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed ⁴⁷  the Lord! I went on the campaign ⁴⁸  the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 16:1

Samuel Anoints David as King

16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. ⁴⁹  Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, ⁵⁰  for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.” ⁵¹ 

1 Samuel 16:11

16:11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Is that all of the young men?” Jesse ⁵²  replied, “There is still the youngest one, but he’s taking care of the flock.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we cannot turn our attention to other things until he comes here.”

1 Samuel 17:49

17:49 David reached his hand into the bag and took out a stone. He slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank deeply into his forehead, and he fell down with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 18:5

18:5 On every mission on which Saul sent him, David achieved success. So Saul appointed him over the men of war. This pleased not only all the army, but also Saul’s servants. ⁵³ 

1 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself ⁵⁴  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 19:20

19:20 So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw a company of prophets prophesying with Samuel standing there as their leader, the spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

1 Samuel 20:5

20:5 David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. ⁵⁵  You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.

1 Samuel 20:12-13

20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. ⁵⁶  I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know? ⁵⁷  20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know ⁵⁸  and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. ⁵⁹  May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.

1 Samuel 20:21

20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; ⁶⁰  get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

1 Samuel 20:29

20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go, ⁶¹  for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged ⁶²  me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go ⁶³  to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

1 Samuel 20:31

20:31 For as long as ⁶⁴  this son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established. Now, send some men ⁶⁵  and bring him to me. For he is as good as dead!” ⁶⁶ 

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.’ ⁶⁷  I have told my soldiers ⁶⁸  to wait at a certain place. ⁶⁹ 

1 Samuel 22:11

22:11 Then the king arranged for a meeting with the priest Ahimelech son of Ahitub and all the priests of his father’s house who were at Nob. They all came to the king.

1 Samuel 24:6

24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, ⁷⁰  by extending my hand against him. After all, ⁷¹  he is the Lord’s chosen one.” ⁷² 

1 Samuel 24:10

24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity ⁷³  on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ ⁷⁴ 

1 Samuel 25:25

25:25 My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means ‘fool,’ and he is indeed foolish! ⁷⁵  But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent. ⁷⁶ 

1 Samuel 26:11

26:11 But may the Lord prevent me from extending my hand against the Lord’s chosen one! Now take the spear by Saul’s head and the jug of water, and let’s get out of here!”

1 Samuel 22:17

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers ⁷⁷  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ⁷⁸  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ⁷⁹  the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 25:39

25:39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praised be the Lord who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! ⁸⁰  The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” ⁸¹  Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.

[20:22]  ¹ tn Heb “from you and onward.”

[25:32]  ² tn Heb “blessed” (also in vv. 33, 39).

[26:4]  ³ tn Heb “and David sent scouts and he knew that Saul had certainly come.”

[5:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “me.”

[5:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Or “panic.”

[5:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”

[6:3]  ⁹ tc The LXX and a Qumran ms add “the covenant of the Lord.”

[19:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Send me away! Why should I kill you?” The question has the force of a threat in this context. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 325, 26.

[6:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “like Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their heart.”

[6:6]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they sent them away and they went.”

[12:11]  ¹⁴ sn Jerub-Baal (יְרֻבַּעַל) is also known as Gideon (see Judg 6:32). The Book of Judges uses both names for him.

[12:11]  ¹⁵ tc The MT has “Bedan” (בְּדָן) here (cf. KJV, NASB, CEV). But a deliverer by this name is not elsewhere mentioned in the OT. The translation follows the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “Barak.”

[12:11]  ¹⁶ tc In the ancient versions there is some confusion with regard to these names, both with regard to the particular names selected for mention and with regard to the order in which they are listed. For example, the LXX has “Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel.” But the Targum has “Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, and Samuel,” while the Syriac Peshitta has “Deborah, Barak, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson.”

[15:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).

[15:18]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “journey.”

[15:18]  ¹⁹ 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”).

[16:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and he sent and brought him.”

[16:20]  ²¹ tn Heb “a kid of the goats.”

[16:20]  ²² tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[16:22]  ²³ tn Heb “Let David stand before me, for he has found favor in my eyes.”

[25:5]  ²⁴ tn Heb “David”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun has been used in the translation.

[25:5]  ²⁵ tn Or “young men.”

[25:5]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and David said to the young men.”

[25:5]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and inquire concerning him in my name in regard to peace.”

[25:14]  ²⁸ tn Heb “bless.”

[26:9]  ²⁹ tn Heb “anointed” (also in vv. 11, 16, 23).

[26:23]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and the Lord returns to the man his righteousness and his faithfulness.”

[30:26]  ³¹ tn Heb “blessing.”

[31:9]  ³² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity (likewise in the following verse).

[4:4]  ³³ tn Or “people.”

[5:8]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:10]  ³⁵ tn Heb “to me.”

[5:10]  ³⁶ tn Heb “my.”

[9:16]  ³⁷ tn Heb “anoint.”

[9:19]  ³⁸ tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

[10:25]  ³⁹ tn Heb “the regulation of the kingship.” This probably refers to the regulations pertaining to kingship given to Moses (see Deut 17:14-20).

[11:7]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “yoke.”

[11:7]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “like one man.”

[13:2]  ⁴² map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:2]  ⁴³ tn Heb “at Gibeah of Benjamin.” The words “in the territory” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[13:2]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “each one to his tents.”

[14:27]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “and he returned his hand to his mouth.”

[14:27]  ⁴⁶ tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading “gleamed,” rather than the Kethib, “saw.”

[15:20]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

[15:20]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “journey.”

[16:1]  ⁴⁹ tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”

[16:1]  ⁵⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:1]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”

[16:11]  ⁵² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jesse) has been specified in the translation both here and in v. 12 for clarity.

[18:5]  ⁵³ tn Heb “it was good in the eyes of all the people and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul.”

[19:11]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “your life.”

[20:5]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[20:12]  ⁵⁶ tc The Hebrew text has simply “the Lord God of Israel.” On the basis of the Syriac version, many reconstruct the text to read “[is] my witness,” which may have fallen out of the text by homoioarcton (an error which is entirely possible if עֵד, ’ed, “witness,” immediately followed ַָדוִד, “David,” in the original text).

[20:12]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”

[20:13]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “uncover your ear.”

[20:13]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “in peace.”

[20:21]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “from you and here.”

[20:29]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “send me.”

[20:29]  ⁶² tn Heb “commanded.”

[20:29]  ⁶³ tn Heb “be released [from duty].”

[20:31]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “all the days that.”

[20:31]  ⁶⁵ tn The words “some men” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:31]  ⁶⁶ tn Heb “a son of death.”

[21:2]  ⁶⁷ 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]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “servants.”

[21:2]  ⁶⁹ 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.

[24:6]  ⁷⁰ tn Heb “anointed.”

[24:6]  ⁷¹ tn Or “for.”

[24:6]  ⁷² tn Heb “anointed.”

[24:10]  ⁷³ tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.

[24:10]  ⁷⁴ tn Heb “anointed.”

[25:25]  ⁷⁵ tn Heb “and foolishness is with him.”

[25:25]  ⁷⁶ tn Heb “my lord’s servants, whom you sent.”

[22:17]  ⁷⁷ tn Heb “runners.”

[22:17]  ⁷⁸ tn Heb “their hand is.”

[22:17]  ⁷⁹ tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

[25:39]  ⁸⁰ tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”

[25:39]  ⁸¹ tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the Lord has turned back on his head.”