1 Samuel 4:17

4:17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled from ¹  the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”

1 Samuel 12:17

12:17 Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves.”

1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan ²  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing ³  large or small without making me aware of it. ⁴  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ⁵  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ⁶  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

[4:17]  ¹ tn Heb “before.”

[20:2]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ³ tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading “he will not do,” rather than the Kethib of the MT (“do to him”).

[20:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

[30:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”