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 ¹  them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s ²  army, ³  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. ⁴  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 ⁵  to the camp to your brothers.

1 Samuel 18:1

Saul Comes to Fear David

18:1 When David ⁶  had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. ⁷  Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 20:22

20:22 But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ ⁹  get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.

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 ¹⁰  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. ¹¹  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 ¹²  David and his men in the region of ¹³  the rocks of the mountain goats. ¹⁴ 

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.

[12:9]  ¹ 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]  ² map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[12:9]  ³ tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”

[16:10]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “run.”

[18:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”

[18:1]  ⁸ 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.

[20:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “from you and onward.”

[22:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “house.”

[23:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to search.”

[24:2]  ¹² tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ¹⁴ 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).