And here are the verses one will find only in the Masoretic text of the Jewish and western canon, according to the verses which did not appear in my copy of the "Septuagint". I have done this directly, not relying purely on those verses bracketed out in the NIV Triglot Bible, nor on the Alexandrine verses quoted in the Appendix to said Septuagint (pp. 1132-3). Segments which I suspect to be glosses to the conflated text of D and B are set into italics.
The careful reader will notice from the word "gloss" that I have already assumed that B was an independent document. Fortunately, the redundancies and contradictions between B and D make the existence of B a certainly. Less certain are the exact contents of B.
B verses often parallel D; note how closely B/18:10-11 follows D/19:9-10a. This makes detection of glosses a very technical and tricky exercise. Which is a gloss, and which a mere quotation by B? I have tried to identify glosses by a number of criteria, especially with a view to how it relates to the rest of B as an independent document. And a B verse is not highlit as a gloss unless I feel it has been proven guilty.
12. Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
13. And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14. And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
15. But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
16. And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. B1
17. And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp of thy brethren;
18. And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
19. Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20. And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
21. For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
22. And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
23. And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them. B2
24. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
25. And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: B3 and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel. B4
26. And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
27. And the people answered him after this manner, saying, B5 So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
28. And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; B6 and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
29. And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
30. And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
31. And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him. B7
41. And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
48b. And David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
50. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. B8
55. And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
56. And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
57. And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. B9
58. And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
1 Samuel 18
1. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
2. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. B10
3. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
4. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
5. And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants. B11
6a. And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
8b.and what can he have more but the kingdom? B12
9. And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
10. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
11. And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice. B13
12b. Because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
17. And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
18. And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king? B14
19. But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
21b. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain. B15
26b. and the days were not expired.
27b. and they gave them in full tale to the king B16
29b. and Saul became David's enemy continually.
30. Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
after this, the next Masoretic "addition" is 1 Samuel 22:12, an unimportant parallel to 1 Samuel 22:11. Story B can be safely ended here.
B2. Note D/17:1-11. In B the Philistines are actually fighting. The "words" are not B's work.
It seems to me that verse 26-27a should follow 25b, not B's 25c. Its misplacement hints that it was a marginal emendation, found here because the sheer size of the passage threw off its copyists. Whether this was B's work or the redactor's, we may never know.
B6. The "men" refer to his "brethen" in the army (B/17:22-23).
B10. Already happened, according to D/16:22.
B11. In B/18:30 below, David's wisdom is directly compared to that of Saul's "servants".
B14. See D/18:20-24. Also note David's low origins, again (B/17).
This means that Adriel and Merab's marriage is native to D. I find it very plausible that the whole of 17-19 (and 21b) belongs to a redactional expansion of D, not B at all. But the case is not closed; even without the expansions B shows some knowledge of D's sources. It may be that B goes on with another story of how David met and wedded Michal. I am leaving 17-19, 21b within B until more evidence is forthcoming.