1 Samuel 17:32

17:32 David said to Saul, “Don’t let anyone be discouraged. ¹  Your servant will go and fight this Philistine!”

1 Samuel 20:16

20:16 and called David’s enemies to account.” So Jonathan made a covenant ²  with the house of David. ³ 

1 Samuel 20:25

20:25 The king sat down in his usual place by the wall, with Jonathan opposite him ⁴  and Abner at his side. ⁵  But David’s place was vacant.

[17:32]  ¹ tn Heb “Let not the heart of a man fall upon him.” The LXX reads “my lord,” instead of “a man.”

[20:16]  ² tn Heb “cut.” The object of the verb (“covenant”) must be supplied.

[20:16]  ³ tn The word order is different in the Hebrew text, which reads “and Jonathan cut with the house of David, and the Lord will seek from the hand of the enemies of David.” The translation assumes that the main clauses of the verse have been accidentally transposed in the course of transmission. The first part of the verse (as it stands in MT) belongs with v. 17, while the second part of the verse actually continues v. 15.

[20:25]  ⁴ tc Heb “and Jonathan arose.” Instead of MT’s וַיָּקָם (vayyaqam, “and he arose”; from the hollow verbal root קוּם, qum), the translation assumes a reading וַיִּקַדֵּם (vayyiqaddem, “and he was in front of”; from the verbal root קדם, qdm). See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 338.

[20:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Abner sat at the side of Saul.”