1 Samuel 18:15

18:15 When Saul saw how very successful he was, he was afraid of him.

1 Samuel 18:20

18:20 Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it ¹  pleased him.

1 Samuel 18:29

18:29 Saul became even more afraid of him. ²  Saul continued to be at odds with David from then on. ³ 

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. ⁴  When he arrived in Bethlehem, ⁵  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They ⁶  said, “Do you come in peace?”

[18:20]  ¹ tn Heb “the matter.”

[18:29]  ² tn Heb “of David.” In the translation the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun for stylistic reasons.

[18:29]  ³ tc The final sentence of v. 29 is absent in most LXX mss.

[18:29]  tn Heb “all the days.”

[16:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “said.”

[16:4]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:4]  ⁶ tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).