1 Samuel 10:6

10:6 Then the spirit of the Lord will rush upon you and you will prophesy with them. You will be changed into a different person.

1 Samuel 15:23

15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as ¹  king.”

1 Samuel 17:4

17:4 Then a champion ²  came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall. ³ 

1 Samuel 31:3

31:3 Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ⁴  the archers ⁵  spotted him and wounded him severely.

[15:23]  ¹ tn Or “from [being].”

[17:4]  ² tn Heb “the man of the space between the two [armies].” See v. 23.

[17:4]  ³ 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.

[31:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the battle was heavy against Saul.”

[31:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “the shooters, men with the bow.”