1 Samuel 25:23

25:23 When Abigail saw David, she got down quickly from the donkey, threw herself down before David, and bowed to the ground.

1 Samuel 25:42

25:42 Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. ¹  She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 20:6

20:6 If your father happens to miss me, you should say, ‘David urgently requested me to let him go ²  to his city Bethlehem, ³  for there is an annual sacrifice there for his entire family.’

1 Samuel 29:10

29:10 So get up early in the morning along with the servants of your lord who have come with you. ⁴  When you get up early in the morning, as soon as it is light enough to see, leave.” ⁵ 

1 Samuel 10:9

Saul Becomes King

10:9 As Saul ⁶  turned ⁷  to leave Samuel, God changed his inmost person. ⁸  All these signs happened on that very day.

1 Samuel 9:13

9:13 When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won’t eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for ⁹  this is the time when you can find him!”

1 Samuel 17:31

17:31 When David’s words were overheard and reported to Saul, he called for him. ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 19:12

19:12 So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.

1 Samuel 23:9

23:9 When David realized that Saul was planning to harm him, ¹¹  he told Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod!”

1 Samuel 24:1

David Spares Saul’s Life

24:1 (24:2) When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, “Look, David is in the desert of En Gedi.”

1 Samuel 1:24

1:24 Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah ¹²  of flour, and a container ¹³  of wine. She brought him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young. ¹⁴ 

1 Samuel 23:27

23:27 But a messenger came to Saul saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”

1 Samuel 28:24

28:24 Now the woman ¹⁵  had a well-fed calf ¹⁶  at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

1 Samuel 4:14

4:14 When Eli heard the outcry, ¹⁷  he said, “What is this commotion?” ¹⁸  The man quickly came and told Eli.

1 Samuel 20:38

20:38 Jonathan called out to the servant, “Hurry! Go faster! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s servant retrieved the arrow and came back to his master.

1 Samuel 25:34

25:34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives – he who has prevented me from harming you – if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”

1 Samuel 17:48

17:48 The Philistine drew steadily closer to David to attack him, while David quickly ran toward the battle line to attack the Philistine. ¹⁹ 

1 Samuel 17:24

17:24 When all the men of Israel saw this man, they retreated ²⁰  from his presence and were very afraid.

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ²¹  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ²²  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

1 Samuel 3:4

3:4 The Lord called to Samuel, and he replied, “Here I am!”

1 Samuel 4:5

4:5 When the ark of the covenant of the Lord arrived at the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly ²³  that the ground shook.

1 Samuel 20:7

20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ ²⁴  then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. ²⁵ 

1 Samuel 23:20

23:20 Now at your own discretion, ²⁶  O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”

1 Samuel 25:19

25:19 and said to her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

1 Samuel 26:2

26:2 So Saul arose and

went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.

1 Samuel 9:12

9:12 They replied, “Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.

1 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. ²⁷  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? ²⁸ 

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. ²⁹  When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

1 Samuel 23:26

23:26 Saul went on one side of the mountain, while David and his men went on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, but Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men so they could capture them.

1 Samuel 10:23

10:23 So they ran and brought him from there. When he took his position among the people, he stood head and shoulders above them all.

1 Samuel 12:9

12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave ³⁰  them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s ³¹  army, ³²  and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

1 Samuel 14:52

14:52 There was fierce war with the Philistines all the days of Saul. So whenever Saul saw anyone who was a warrior or a brave individual, he would conscript him.

1 Samuel 16:10

16:10 Jesse presented seven of his sons to Samuel. ³³  But Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen any of these.”

1 Samuel 17:17

17:17 Jesse said to his son David, “Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly ³⁴  to the camp to your brothers.

1 Samuel 18:1

Saul Comes to Fear David

18:1 When David ³⁵  had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. ³⁶  Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life. ³⁷ 

1 Samuel 20:19

20:19 On the third day ³⁸  you should go down quickly ³⁹  and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. ⁴⁰  Stay near the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:22

20:22 But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ ⁴¹  get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 21:8

21:8 David said to Ahimelech, “Is there no sword or spear here at your disposal? I don’t have my own sword or equipment in hand due to the urgency of the king’s instructions.”

1 Samuel 22:1

David Goes to Adullam and Mizpah

22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family ⁴²  learned about it, they went down there to him.

1 Samuel 22:5

22:5 Then Gad the prophet said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Go to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

1 Samuel 22:11

22:11 Then the king arranged for a meeting with the priest Ahimelech son of Ahitub and all the priests of his father’s house who were at Nob. They all came to the king.

1 Samuel 23:25

23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ⁴³  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ⁴⁴  David and his men in the region of ⁴⁵  the rocks of the mountain goats. ⁴⁶ 

1 Samuel 27:2

27:2 So David left and crossed over to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath accompanied by his six hundred men.

1 Samuel 28:23

28:23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged ⁴⁷  him to eat, so he gave in. ⁴⁸  He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.

1 Samuel 3:6

3:6 The Lord again called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But Eli ⁴⁹  said, “I didn’t call you, my son. Go back and lie down.”

1 Samuel 3:8

3:8 Then the Lord called Samuel a third time. So he got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me!” Eli then realized that it was the Lord who was calling the boy.

1 Samuel 14:27

14:27 But Jonathan had not heard about the oath his father had made the army take. He extended the end of his staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he ate it, ⁵⁰  his eyes gleamed. ⁵¹ 

1 Samuel 15:6

15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away ⁵²  with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 16:13

16:13 So Samuel took the horn full of olive oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. The Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day onward. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah.

1 Samuel 25:13

25:13 Then David instructed his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.

1 Samuel 25:17

25:17 Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. ⁵³  He is such a wicked person ⁵⁴  that no one tells him anything!”

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 27:1

David Aligns Himself with the Philistines

27:1 David thought to himself, ⁵⁵  “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”

1 Samuel 14:34

14:34 Then Saul said, “Scatter out among the army and say to them, ‘Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don’t sin against the Lord by eating the blood.” So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there. ⁵⁶ 

1 Samuel 25:39

25:39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praised be the Lord who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! ⁵⁷  The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” ⁵⁸  Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.

[25:42]  ¹ tn Heb “going at her feet.”

[20:6]  ² tn Heb “to run.”

[20:6]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[29:10]  ⁴ tc The LXX and a couple of Old Latin mss include here the following words: “and you shall go to the place that I have appointed you. Don’t place an evil thing in your heart, for you are good before me.”

[29:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “when you get up early in the morning and you have light, go.”

[10:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “turned his shoulder.”

[10:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “God turned for him another heart”; NAB, NRSV “gave him another heart”; NIV, NCV “changed Saul’s heart”; TEV “gave Saul a new nature”; CEV “made Saul feel like a different person.”

[9:13]  ⁹ tc The MT has “him” (אֹתוֹ, ’oto) here, in addition to the “him” at the end of the verse. The ancient versions attest to only one occurrence of the pronoun, although it is possible that this is due to translation technique rather than to their having a Hebrew text with the pronoun used only once. The present translation assumes textual duplication in the MT and does not attempt to represent the pronoun twice. However, for a defense of the MT here, with the suggested translation “for him just now – you will find him,” see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 72-73.

[17:31]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he took him.”

[23:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Saul was planning the evil against him.”

[1:24]  ¹² sn The ephah was a standard dry measure in OT times; it was the equivalent of one-tenth of the OT measure known as a homer. The ephah was equal to approximately one-half to two-thirds of a bushel.

[1:24]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew term translated “container” may denote either a clay storage jar (cf. CEV “a clay jar full of wine”) or a leather container (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV “a skin of wine”; NCV “a leather bag filled with (full of TEV) wine.”

[1:24]  ¹⁴ tc Heb “and the boy was a boy.” If the MT is correct the meaning apparently is that the boy was quite young at the time of these events. On the other hand, some scholars have suspected a textual problem, emending the text to read either “and the boy was with them” (so LXX) or “and the boy was with her” (a conjectural emendation). In spite of the difficulty it seems best to stay with the MT here.

[28:24]  ¹⁵ sn Masoretic mss of the Hebrew Bible mark this word as the half-way point in the book of Samuel, treating 1 and 2 Samuel as a single book. Similar notations are found at the midway point for all of the books of the Hebrew Bible.

[28:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a calf of the stall.”

[4:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the sound of the cry.”

[4:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the sound of this commotion.”

[17:48]  ¹⁹ tc Most LXX mss lack the second half of v. 48.

[17:24]  ²⁰ tn Or “fled.”

[25:18]  ²¹ tn Heb “skins.”

[25:18]  ²² sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.

[4:5]  ²³ tn Heb “shouted [with] a great shout.”

[20:7]  ²⁴ tn Heb “good.”

[20:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”

[23:20]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to all the desire of your soul.”

[20:12]  ²⁷ 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]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”

[23:13]  ²⁹ tn Heb “they went where they went.”

[12:9]  ³⁰ tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”

[12:9]  ³¹ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[12:9]  ³² tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”

[16:10]  ³³ tn Heb “caused seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.” This could be taken as referring to seven sons in addition to the three mentioned before this, but 1 Sam 17:12 says Jesse had eight sons, not eleven. 1 Chr 2:13-15 lists only seven sons, including David. However, 1 Chr 27:18 mentions an additional son, named Elihu.

[17:17]  ³⁴ tn Heb “run.”

[18:1]  ³⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:1]  ³⁶ tn Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”

[18:1]  ³⁷ tn Heb “like his [own] soul.”

[18:1]  sn On the nature of Jonathan’s love for David, see J. A. Thompson, “The Significance of the Verb Love in the David-Jonathan Narratives in 1 Samuel,” VT 24 (1974): 334-38.

[20:19]  ³⁸ tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).

[20:19]  ³⁹ tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.

[20:19]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.

[20:22]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “from you and onward.”

[22:1]  ⁴² tn Heb “house.”

[23:25]  ⁴³ tn Heb “to search.”

[24:2]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ⁴⁶ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

[28:23]  ⁴⁷ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וַיִּפְצְרוּ (vayyiftseru, “and they pressed”; from the root פצר, psr) rather than the MT’s וַיִּפְרְצוּ (vayyifretsu, “and they broke forth”; from the root פרצ, prs).

[28:23]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”

[3:6]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:27]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “and he returned his hand to his mouth.”

[14:27]  ⁵¹ tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading “gleamed,” rather than the Kethib, “saw.”

[15:6]  ⁵² tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסִפְךָ (’esfÿka, “I sweep you away,” from the root ספה [sfh]) rather than the MT אֹסִפְךָ (’osifÿka, “I am gathering you,” from the root אסף[’sf]).

[25:17]  ⁵³ tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”

[25:17]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”

[27:1]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “said to his heart.”

[14:34]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”

[25:39]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”

[25:39]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the Lord has turned back on his head.”