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 9:13

9:13 When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won’t eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for ¹  this is the time when you can find him!”

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 13:11

13:11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the army had started to abandon me ²  and that you didn’t come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash,

1 Samuel 14:36

14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout ³  them until the break of day. ⁴  We won’t leave any of them alive!” ⁵  They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” ⁶  But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

1 Samuel 19:4

19:4 So Jonathan spoke on David’s behalf ⁷  to his father Saul. He said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial ⁸  for you.

1 Samuel 22:6

Saul Executes the Priests

22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. ⁹  Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.

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; ¹⁰  he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 27:5

27:5 David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”

1 Samuel 27:11

27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time ¹¹  that he lived in the country of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 28:7

28:7 So Saul instructed his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, ¹²  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 31:12

31:12 all their warriors set out and traveled throughout the night. They took Saul’s corpse and the corpses of his sons from the city wall of Beth Shan and went ¹³  to Jabesh, where they burned them.

[9:13]  ¹ tc The MT has “him” (אֹתוֹ, ’oto) here, in addition to the “him” at the end of the verse. The ancient versions attest to only one occurrence of the pronoun, although it is possible that this is due to translation technique rather than to their having a Hebrew text with the pronoun used only once. The present translation assumes textual duplication in the MT and does not attempt to represent the pronoun twice. However, for a defense of the MT here, with the suggested translation “for him just now – you will find him,” see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 72-73.

[13:11]  ² tn Heb “dispersed from upon me.”

[14:36]  ³ tn Heb “plunder.”

[14:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”

[14:36]  ⁵ tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”

[14:36]  ⁶ tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.

[19:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “spoke good with respect to David.”

[19:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “good.”

[22:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”

[25:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “great.”

[27:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “all the days.”

[28:7]  ¹² tn Heb “an owner of a ritual pit.” See the note at v. 3.

[31:12]  ¹³ tc The translation follows the MT, which vocalizes the verb as a Qal. The LXX, however, treats the verb as a Hiphil, “they brought.”