1 Samuel 9:20

9:20 Don’t be concerned ¹  about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” ² 

1 Samuel 12:10

12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, ³  ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. ⁴  Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ ⁵ 

1 Samuel 15:15

15:15 Saul said, “They were brought ⁶  from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

1 Samuel 26:15

26:15 David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? After all, who is like you in Israel? Why then haven’t you protected your lord the king? One of the soldiers came to kill your lord the king.

1 Samuel 29:6

29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you ⁷  serving ⁸  with me in the army. ⁹  I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion ¹⁰  of the leaders, you are not reliable. ¹¹ 

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 ¹²  to Jabesh, where they burned them.

[9:20]  ¹ tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”

[9:20]  ² tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”

[12:10]  ³ tn Heb “and said.”

[12:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.

[12:10]  sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.

[12:10]  ⁵ tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

[15:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “they brought them.”

[29:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.

[29:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.

[29:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “camp.”

[29:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “eyes.”

[29:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “good.”

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