1 Samuel 4:10

4:10 So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. ¹  The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.

1 Samuel 11:2

11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!”

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. ²  When he arrived in Bethlehem, ³  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They ⁴  said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 29:11

29:11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to return ⁵  to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

[4:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and they fled, each to his tents.”

[16:4]  ² tn Heb “said.”

[16:4]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:4]  ⁴ tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

[29:11]  ⁵ tc Heb “to go in the morning to return.” With the exception of Origen and the Lucianic recension, the Old Greek tradition lacks the phrase “in the morning.” The Syriac Peshitta also omits it.