1 Samuel 27:4

27:4 When Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he did not mount a new search for him.

1 Samuel 26:2

26:2 So Saul arose and

went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.

1 Samuel 9:3

9:3 The donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, ¹  so Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go ²  look for the donkeys.” ³ 

1 Samuel 20:36

20:36 He said to his servant, “Run, find the arrows that I am about to shoot.” As the servant ran, Jonathan ⁴  shot the arrow beyond him.

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ⁵  David and his men in the region of ⁶  the rocks of the mountain goats. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 10:21

10:21 Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of Matri was chosen by lot. At last Saul son of Kish was chosen by lot. But when they looked for him, he was nowhere to be found.

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, ⁸  but God did not deliver David ⁹  into his hand.

1 Samuel 10:14

10:14 Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” Saul ¹⁰  replied, “To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, ¹¹  we went to Samuel.”

1 Samuel 20:19

20:19 On the third day ¹²  you should go down quickly ¹³  and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. ¹⁴  Stay near the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:31

20:31 For as long as ¹⁵  this son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established. Now, send some men ¹⁶  and bring him to me. For he is as good as dead!” ¹⁷ 

1 Samuel 23:25

23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ¹⁸  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

1 Samuel 28:7

28:7 So Saul instructed his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, ¹⁹  so that I may go to her and inquire of her.” His servants replied to him, “There is a woman who is a medium in Endor.”

1 Samuel 19:2

19:2 So Jonathan told David, “My father Saul is trying ²⁰  to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find ²¹  a hiding place and stay in seclusion. ²² 

1 Samuel 24:9

24:9 David said to Saul, “Why do you pay attention when men say, ‘David is seeking to do you harm’?

1 Samuel 26:20

26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge ²³  in the hill country.”

1 Samuel 16:16

16:16 Let our lord instruct his servants who are here before you to look for a man who knows how to play the lyre. Then whenever the evil spirit from God comes upon you, he can play the lyre ²⁴  and you will feel better.” ²⁵ 

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; ²⁶  get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

1 Samuel 27:1

David Aligns Himself with the Philistines

27:1 David thought to himself, ²⁷  “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”

1 Samuel 10:2

10:2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! ²⁸  He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’

1 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ²⁹  for himself a man who is loyal to him ³⁰  and the Lord has appointed ³¹  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 22:23

22:23 Stay with me. Don’t be afraid! Whoever ³²  seeks my life is seeking your life as well. You are secure with me.”

1 Samuel 23:15

23:15 David realized ³³  that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.

1 Samuel 16:17

16:17 So Saul said to his servants, “Find ³⁴  me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”

1 Samuel 20:1

Jonathan Seeks to Protect David

20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, ³⁵  “What have I done? What is my offense? ³⁶  How have I sinned before your father? For he is seeking my life!”

1 Samuel 23:23

23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. ³⁷  Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him ³⁸  among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 8:3

8:3 But his sons did not follow ³⁹  his ways. Instead, they made money dishonestly, accepted bribes, and perverted justice. ⁴⁰ 

1 Samuel 16:15

16:15 Then Saul’s servants said to him, “Look, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you!”

1 Samuel 17:22

17:22 After David had entrusted his cargo to the care of the supply officer, ⁴¹  he ran to the battlefront. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.

1 Samuel 9:6

9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. ⁴²  Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” ⁴³ 

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 2:5

2:5 Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food,

but the hungry no longer lack.

Even ⁴⁴  the barren woman gives birth to seven, ⁴⁵ 

but the one with many children withers away. ⁴⁶ 

1 Samuel 9:5

9:5 When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come on, let’s head back before my father quits worrying about the donkeys and becomes anxious about us!”

1 Samuel 20:6

20:6 If your father happens to miss me, you should say, ‘David urgently requested me to let him go ⁴⁷  to his city Bethlehem, ⁴⁸  for there is an annual sacrifice there for his entire family.’

1 Samuel 23:22

23:22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely ⁴⁹  where he is ⁵⁰  and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

1 Samuel 25:33

25:33 Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded ⁵¹  for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!

1 Samuel 6:7

6:7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

1 Samuel 9:4

9:4 So Saul ⁵²  crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.

1 Samuel 9:9

9:9 (Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say, “Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.)

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. ⁵³ 

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 15:12

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where ⁵⁴  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ⁵⁵  and went down to Gilgal.” ⁵⁶ 

1 Samuel 25:2

David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal

25:2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; ⁵⁷  he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:29

25:29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag ⁵⁸  of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!

1 Samuel 25:31

25:31 Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt ⁵⁹  for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, ⁶⁰  please remember your servant.”

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ⁶¹  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ⁶²  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

[9:3]  ¹ tn Heb “became lost.”

[9:3]  ² tn Heb “and arise, go.”

[9:3]  ³ tc The Syriac Peshitta includes the following words: “So Saul arose and went out. He took with him one of the boys and went out to look for his father’s donkeys.”

[20:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ⁷ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

[23:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “all the days.”

[23:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And we saw that they were not.”

[20:19]  ¹² tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).

[20:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.

[20:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.

[20:31]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “all the days that.”

[20:31]  ¹⁶ tn The words “some men” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:31]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “a son of death.”

[23:25]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to search.”

[28:7]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “an owner of a ritual pit.” See the note at v. 3.

[19:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “seeking.”

[19:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “stay in.”

[19:2]  ²² tn Heb “and hide yourself.”

[26:20]  ²³ tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.

[16:16]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”

[16:16]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”

[20:21]  ²⁶ tn Heb “from you and here.”

[27:1]  ²⁷ tn Heb “said to his heart.”

[10:2]  ²⁸ sn In the Hebrew text the pronoun you is plural, suggesting that Saul’s father was concerned about his son and the servant who accompanied him.

[13:14]  ²⁹ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

[13:14]  ³⁰ tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

[13:14]  ³¹ tn Heb “commanded.”

[22:23]  ³² tn Or “the one who.” This may refer specifically to Saul, in which case David acknowledges that Abiathar’s life is endangered because of his allegiance to David. The translation assumes that the statement is more generalized, meaning that any enemy of Abiathar is an enemy of David. In other words, David promises that he will protect Abiathar with his very own life.

[23:15]  ³³ tn Heb “saw.”

[16:17]  ³⁴ tn Heb “see.”

[20:1]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and he came and said before Jonathan.”

[20:1]  ³⁶ tn Heb “What is my guilt?”

[23:23]  ³⁷ tn Heb “established.”

[23:23]  ³⁸ tn Heb “I will search him out.”

[8:3]  ³⁹ tn Heb “walk in” (also in v. 5).

[8:3]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “and they turned aside after unjust gain and took bribes and perverted justice.”

[17:22]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “the guard of the equipment.”

[9:6]  ⁴² tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

[9:6]  ⁴³ tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”

[2:5]  ⁴⁴ tc Against BHS but with the MT, the preposition (עַד, ’ad) should be taken with what follows rather than with what precedes. For this sense of the preposition see Job 25:5.

[2:5]  ⁴⁵ sn The number seven is used here in an ideal sense. Elsewhere in the OT having seven children is evidence of fertility as a result of God’s blessing on the family. See, for example, Jer 15:9, Ruth 4:15.

[2:5]  ⁴⁶ tn Or “languishes.”

[20:6]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “to run.”

[20:6]  ⁴⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[23:22]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “know and see.” The expression is a hendiadys. See also v. 23.

[23:22]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “his place where his foot is.”

[25:33]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “blessed.”

[9:4]  ⁵² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:19]  ⁵³ tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

[15:12]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “and look.”

[15:12]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

[15:12]  ⁵⁶ tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”

[25:2]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “great.”

[25:29]  ⁵⁸ tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”

[25:31]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “and this will not be for you for staggering and for stumbling of the heart of my lord.”

[25:31]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “and the Lord will do well for my lord.”

[26:16]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ⁶² tn Heb “you are sons of death.”