1 Samuel 6:9

6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

1 Samuel 14:36

14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout ¹  them until the break of day. ²  We won’t leave any of them alive!” ³  They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” ⁴  But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

1 Samuel 14:40

14:40 Then he said to all Israel, “You will be on one side, and I and my son Jonathan will be on the other side.” The army replied to Saul, “Do whatever you think is best.”

1 Samuel 19:18

19:18 Now David had run away and escaped. He went to Samuel in Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.

1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan ⁵  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing ⁶  large or small without making me aware of it. ⁷  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

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 26:25

26:25 Saul replied to David, “May you be rewarded, ⁸  my son David! You will without question be successful!” ⁹  So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

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 ¹⁰  that he lived in the country of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 28:9

28:9 But the woman said to him, “Look, you are aware of what Saul has done; he has removed ¹¹  the mediums and magicians ¹²  from the land! Why are you trapping me ¹³  so you can put me to death?”

1 Samuel 28:18

28:18 Since you did not obey the Lord ¹⁴  and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the Lord has done this thing to you today.

[14:36]  ¹ tn Heb “plunder.”

[14:36]  ² tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”

[14:36]  ³ tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”

[14:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.

[20:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

[26:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “blessed.”

[26:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “you will certainly do and also you will certainly be able.” The infinitive absolutes placed before the finite verbal forms lend emphasis to the statement.

[27:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all the days.”

[28:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “how he has cut off.”

[28:9]  ¹² tn See the note at v. 3.

[28:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “my life.”

[28:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord.”