1 Samuel 6:14

6:14 The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:30

15:30 Saul ¹  again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”

1 Samuel 18:18

18:18 David said to Saul, “Who am I? Who are my relatives or the clan of my father ²  in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”

1 Samuel 22:4

22:4 So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time ³  that David was in the stronghold.

1 Samuel 23:23

23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. ⁴  Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him ⁵  among all the thousands of Judah.”

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 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 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ⁶  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ⁷  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

1 Samuel 31:7

31:7 When the men of Israel who were in the valley and across the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.

1 Samuel 31:10

31:10 They placed Saul’s armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths ⁸  and hung his corpse on the city wall of Beth Shan.

[15:30]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:18]  ² tn Heb “Who are my relatives, the clan of my father?” The term חַי (khay), traditionally understood as “my life,” is here a rare word meaning “family, kinfolk” (see HALOT 309 s.v. III חַי). The phrase “clan of my father” may be a scribal gloss explaining the referent of this rare word.

[22:4]  ³ tn Heb “all the days.”

[23:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “established.”

[23:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will search him out.”

[26:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”

[31:10]  ⁸ 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.