1 Samuel 9:19-20

9:19 Samuel replied to Saul, “I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking. ¹  9:20 Don’t be concerned ²  about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” ³ 

1 Samuel 10:18

10:18 He said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt and I delivered you from the power ⁴  of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.

1 Samuel 18:6

18:6 When the men ⁵  arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments. ⁶ 

[9:19]  ¹ tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

[9:20]  ² tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”

[9:20]  ³ tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”

[10:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).

[18:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.

[18:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”