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 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ¹  Israel along the way when Israel ²  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 26:23

26:23 The Lord rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty. ³  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 25:21

25:21 Now David had been thinking, ⁴  “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

1 Samuel 18:25

18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ⁵  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

1 Samuel 14:24

Jonathan Violates Saul’s Oath

14:24 Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: “Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.

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 3:17

3:17 Eli ⁶  said, “What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely ⁷  if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”

1 Samuel 18:7

18:7 The women who were playing the music sang,

“Saul has struck down his thousands,

but David his tens of thousands!”

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! ⁸  The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” ⁹  Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.

1 Samuel 20:16

20:16 and called David’s enemies to account.” So Jonathan made a covenant ¹⁰  with the house of David. ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 24:13

24:13 It’s like the old proverb says: ‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.

1 Samuel 24:17

24:17 He said to David, “You are more innocent ¹²  than I, for you have treated me well, even though I have tried to harm you!

1 Samuel 29:5

29:5 Isn’t this David, of whom they sang as they danced, ¹³ 

‘Saul has struck down his thousands,

but David his tens of thousands’?”

1 Samuel 25:26

25:26 “Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as surely as you live, it is the Lord who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 24:18

24:18 You have explained today how you have treated me well. The Lord delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.

1 Samuel 25:28

25:28 Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the Lord will certainly establish the house of my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. May no evil be found in you all your days!

1 Samuel 25:33

25:33 Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded ¹⁴  for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!

1 Samuel 6:3-4

6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of ¹⁵  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.” 6:4 They inquired, “What is the guilt offering that we should send to him?”

They replied, “The Philistine leaders number five. So send five gold sores and five gold mice, for it is the same plague that has afflicted both you and your leaders.

1 Samuel 6:17

6:17 These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the Lord – one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

1 Samuel 21:11

21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,

‘Saul struck down his thousands,

But David his tens of thousands’?”

1 Samuel 25:17

25:17 Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. ¹⁶  He is such a wicked person ¹⁷  that no one tells him anything!”

[15:2]  ¹ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

[15:2]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[26:23]  ³ tn Heb “and the Lord returns to the man his righteousness and his faithfulness.”

[25:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “said.”

[18:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “the king’s.”

[3:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “So God will do to you and thus he will add.” The verbal forms in this pronouncement are imperfects, not jussives, but the statement has the force of a curse or warning. One could translate, “May God do to you and thus may he add.”

[25:39]  ⁸ tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”

[25:39]  ⁹ tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the Lord has turned back on his head.”

[20:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “cut.” The object of the verb (“covenant”) must be supplied.

[20:16]  ¹¹ 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.

[24:17]  ¹² tn Or “righteous” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “you are in the right”; NLT “are a better man than I am.”

[29:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “in dances.”

[25:33]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “blessed.”

[6:3]  ¹⁵ tc The LXX and a Qumran ms add “the covenant of the Lord.”

[25:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”

[25:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”