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 23:3

23:3 But David’s men said to him, “We are afraid while we are still here in Judah! What will it be like if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

1 Samuel 23:5

23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. ²  David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 23:24-25

23:24 So they left and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. 23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ³  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 ⁴  David and his men in the region of ⁵  the rocks of the mountain goats. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 24:7

24:7 David restrained his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and started down ⁷  the road.

1 Samuel 25:20

25:20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

1 Samuel 27:3

27:3 David settled with Achish in Gath, along with his men and their families. ⁸  David had with him his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

1 Samuel 27:8

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach ⁹  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

1 Samuel 29:11

29:11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to return ¹⁰  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.”

[23:5]  ² tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”

[23:25]  ³ tn Heb “to search.”

[24:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ⁶ 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).

[24:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “went on.”

[27:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “a man and his house.”

[27:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “from where you come.”

[29:11]  ¹⁰ 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.