1 Samuel 31:4

31:4 Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.

1 Samuel 26:8

26:8 Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me drive the spear ¹  right through him into the ground with one swift jab! ²  A second jab won’t be necessary!”

1 Samuel 19:10

19:10 Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. ³  David escaped quickly ⁴  that night.

1 Samuel 18:11

18:11 and Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.

1 Samuel 20:33

20:33 Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan ⁵  in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced ⁶  that his father had decided to kill David.

1 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found ⁷  the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 31:3

31:3 Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ⁹  the archers ¹⁰  spotted him and wounded him severely.

[26:8]  ¹ tn Here “the spear” almost certainly refers to Saul’s own spear, which according to the previous verse was stuck into the ground beside him as he slept. This is reflected in a number of English versions: TEV, CEV “his own spear”; NLT “that spear.” Cf. NIV, NCV “my spear,” in which case Abishai refers to his own spear rather than Saul’s, but this is unlikely since (1) Abishai would probably not have carried a spear along since such a weapon would be unwieldy when sneaking into the enemy camp; and (2) this would not explain the mention of Saul’s own spear stuck in the ground beside him in the previous verse.

[26:8]  ² tn Heb “let me strike him with the spear and into the ground one time.”

[19:10]  ³ tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”

[19:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “fled and escaped.”

[20:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “knew.”

[14:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and look, there was”

[14:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “the sword of a man against his companion, a very great panic.”

[31:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the battle was heavy against Saul.”

[31:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the shooters, men with the bow.”