1 Samuel 8:20
Konteks8:20 We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us 1 and fight our battles.”
1 Samuel 13:10
Konteks13:10 Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. 2
1 Samuel 17:4
Konteks17:4 Then a champion 3 came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall. 4
1 Samuel 18:13
Konteks18:13 Saul removed David 5 from his presence and made him a commanding officer. 6 David led the army out to battle and back. 7
1 Samuel 20:35
Konteks20:35 The next morning Jonathan, along with a young servant, went out to the field to meet David.
[8:20] 1 tn Heb “and go out before us.”
[13:10] 2 tn Heb “to bless him.”
[17:4] 3 tn Heb “the man of the space between the two [armies].” See v. 23.
[17:4] 4 tc Heb “his height was six cubits and a span” (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV). A cubit was approximately eighteen inches, a span nine inches. So, according to the Hebrew tradition, Goliath was about nine feet, nine inches tall (cf. NIV, CEV, NLT “over nine feet”; NCV “nine feet, four inches”; TEV “nearly 3 metres”). However, some Greek witnesses, Josephus, and a manuscript of 1 Samuel from Qumran read “four cubits and a span” here, that is, about six feet, nine inches (cf. NAB “six and a half feet”). This seems more reasonable; it is likely that Goliath’s height was exaggerated as the story was retold. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 286, 291.
[18:13] 5 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[18:13] 6 tn Heb “an officer of a thousand.”
[18:13] 7 tn Heb “and he went out and came in before the people.” See v. 16.