Kejadian 14:17

14:17 After Abram ¹  returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram ²  in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King’s Valley). ³ 

Kejadian 14:1

The Blessing of Victory for God’s People

14:1 At that time ⁴  Amraphel king of Shinar, ⁵  Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations ⁶ 

1 Samuel 15:12

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where ⁷  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ⁸  and went down to Gilgal.” ⁹ 

1 Samuel 30:21

30:21 Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, ¹⁰  those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

[14:17]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:17]  ² tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:17]  ³ sn The King’s Valley is possibly a reference to what came to be known later as the Kidron Valley.

[14:1]  ⁴ tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator וַיְהִי (vayÿhi) followed by “in the days of.”

[14:1]  ⁵ sn Shinar (also in v. 9) is the region of Babylonia.

[14:1]  ⁶ tn Or “king of Goyim.” The Hebrew term גּוֹיִם (goyim) means “nations,” but a number of modern translations merely transliterate the Hebrew (cf. NEB “Goyim”; NIV, NRSV “Goiim”).

[15:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “and look.”

[15:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

[15:12]  ⁹ tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”

[30:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“him”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.