Mazmur 66:16

66:16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! ¹ 

I will declare what he has done for me.

Mazmur 66:1

Psalm 66 ² 

For the music director; a song, a psalm.

66:1 Shout out praise to God, all the earth!

1 Samuel 17:36-37

17:36 Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them. ³  For he has defied the armies of the living God!” 17:37 David went on to say, “The Lord who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!” Then Saul said to David, “Go! The Lord will be with you.” ⁴ 

1 Samuel 17:2

17:2 Saul and the Israelite army ⁵  assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against ⁶  the Philistines.

1 Samuel 4:9

4:9 Be strong and act like men, you Philistines, or else you will wind up serving the Hebrews the way they have served you! Act like men and fight!”

1 Samuel 22:1

David Goes to Adullam and Mizpah

22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family ⁷  learned about it, they went down there to him.

1 Samuel 22:1

David Goes to Adullam and Mizpah

22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family ⁸  learned about it, they went down there to him.

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. ⁹  When he arrived in Bethlehem, ¹⁰  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They ¹¹  said, “Do you come in peace?”

[66:16]  ¹ tn Heb “all of the fearers of God.”

[66:1]  ² sn Psalm 66. The psalmist praises God because he has delivered his people from a crisis.

[17:36]  ³ tc The LXX includes here the following words not found in the MT: “Should I not go and smite him, and remove today reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one?”

[17:37]  ⁴ tn Or “Go, and may the Lord be with you” (so NASB, NCV, NRSV).

[17:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”

[17:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “to meet.”

[22:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[22:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “house.”

[16:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “said.”

[16:4]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:4]  ¹¹ 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”).