1 Samuel 17:37

17:37 David went on to say, “The Lord who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!” Then Saul said to David, “Go! The Lord will be with you.” ¹ 

1 Samuel 18:25

18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ²  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

1 Samuel 18:27

18:27 when David, along with his men, went out ³  and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

1 Samuel 19:4

19:4 So Jonathan spoke on David’s behalf ⁴  to his father Saul. He said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial ⁵  for you.

1 Samuel 19:7

19:7 Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he had done formerly. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself ⁷  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. ⁸  I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know? ⁹ 

1 Samuel 20:41

20:41 When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, ¹⁰  knelt ¹¹  with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

1 Samuel 21:1

21:1 (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met ¹²  David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”

1 Samuel 21:11

21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,

‘Saul struck down his thousands,

But David his tens of thousands’?”

1 Samuel 23:5

23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. ¹³  David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 23:13

23:13 So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. ¹⁴  When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

1 Samuel 24:8

24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 24:16

24:16 When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Then Saul wept loudly. ¹⁵ 

1 Samuel 26:5

26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.

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 ¹⁶  that he lived in the country of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 28:2

28:2 David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard ¹⁷  from now on.” ¹⁸ 

1 Samuel 30:6

30:6 David was very upset, for the men ¹⁹  were thinking of stoning him; ²⁰  each man grieved bitterly ²¹  over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.

[17:37]  ¹ tn Or “Go, and may the Lord be with you” (so NASB, NCV, NRSV).

[18:25]  ² tn Heb “the king’s.”

[18:27]  ³ tn Heb “arose and went.”

[19:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “spoke good with respect to David.”

[19:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “good.”

[19:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he was before him as before.”

[19:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “your life.”

[20:12]  ⁸ tc The Hebrew text has simply “the Lord God of Israel.” On the basis of the Syriac version, many reconstruct the text to read “[is] my witness,” which may have fallen out of the text by homoioarcton (an error which is entirely possible if עֵד, ’ed, “witness,” immediately followed ַָדוִד, “David,” in the original text).

[20:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”

[20:41]  ¹⁰ tc The translation follows the LXX in reading “the mound,” rather than the MT’s “the south.” It is hard to see what meaning the MT reading “from beside the south” would have as it stands, since such a location lacks specificity. The NIV treats it as an elliptical expression, rendering the phrase as “from the south side of the stone (rock NCV).” This is perhaps possible, but it seems better to follow the LXX rather than the MT here.

[20:41]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fell.”

[21:1]  ¹² tn Heb “trembled to meet.”

[23:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”

[23:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they went where they went.”

[24:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “lifted his voice and wept.”

[27:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “all the days.”

[28:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”

[28:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “all the days.”

[30:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “people.”

[30:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “said to stone him.”

[30:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”