¹tn Heb “stuck close after.”
²tn Heb “the Philistines.”
³tn Heb “and the battle was heavy against Saul.”
⁴tn Heb “the shooters, men with the bow.”
⁵tn Heb “fallen.”
⁶tn Heb “his”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
⁷sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.
⁸tc The translation follows the MT, which vocalizes the verb as a Qal. The LXX, however, treats the verb as a Hiphil, “they brought.”