1 Samuel 7:6

7:6 After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed ¹  there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel led ²  the people of Israel at Mizpah.

1 Samuel 11:7

11:7 He took a pair ³  of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 11:11

11:11 The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them ⁵  down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.

1 Samuel 15:15

15:15 Saul said, “They were brought ⁶  from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

1 Samuel 18:6

18:6 When the men ⁷  arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 21:11

21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,

‘Saul struck down his thousands,

But David his tens of thousands’?”

1 Samuel 22:17

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers ⁹  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ¹⁰  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ¹¹  the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 23:13

23:13 So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. ¹²  When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

1 Samuel 30:8

30:8 David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Should I pursue this raiding band? Will I overtake them?” He said to him, “Pursue, for you will certainly overtake them and carry out a rescue!”

[7:6]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[7:6]  ² tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”

[11:7]  ³ tn Heb “yoke.”

[11:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “like one man.”

[11:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “Ammon.” By metonymy the name “Ammon” is used collectively for the soldiers in the Ammonite army.

[15:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “they brought them.”

[18:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.

[18:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”

[22:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “runners.”

[22:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “their hand is.”

[22:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

[23:13]  ¹² tn Heb “they went where they went.”