1 Samuel 7:2

Further Conflict with the Philistines

7:2 It was quite a long time – some twenty years in all – that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people ¹  of Israel longed for ²  the Lord.

1 Samuel 16:23

16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone. ³ 

1 Samuel 18:1

Saul Comes to Fear David

18:1 When David ⁴  had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. ⁵  Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life. ⁶ 

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 ⁷  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

[7:2]  ¹ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

[7:2]  ² tn Heb “mourned after”; NIV “mourned and sought after”; KJV, NRSV “lamented after”; NAB “turned to”; NCV “began to follow…again.”

[16:23]  ³ tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”

[18:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”

[18:1]  ⁶ 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.

[27:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “from where you come.”