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 ¹  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. ² 

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 ³  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ⁴  and went down to Gilgal.” ⁵ 

1 Samuel 25:2

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25:2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; ⁶  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 ⁷  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 ⁸  for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, ⁹  please remember your servant.”

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ¹⁰  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ¹¹  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

[9:4]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:19]  ² tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

[15:12]  ³ tn Heb “and look.”

[15:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

[15:12]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “great.”

[25:29]  ⁷ tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”

[25:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “and this will not be for you for staggering and for stumbling of the heart of my lord.”

[25:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the Lord will do well for my lord.”

[26:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”