1 Samuel 1:21

Hannah Dedicates Samuel to the Lord

1:21 This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow,

1 Samuel 4:21

4:21 She named the boy Ichabod, ¹  saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

1 Samuel 14:14

14:14 In this initial skirmish Jonathan and his armor bearer struck down about twenty men in an area that measured half an acre.

1 Samuel 17:4

17:4 Then a champion ²  came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall. ³ 

1 Samuel 17:48

17:48 The Philistine drew steadily closer to David to attack him, while David quickly ran toward the battle line to attack the Philistine. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 19:18

19:18 Now David had run away and escaped. He went to Samuel in Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.

1 Samuel 23:5

23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. ⁵  David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ⁶  David and his men in the region of ⁷  the rocks of the mountain goats. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 25:40

25:40 So the servants of David went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, “David has sent us to you to bring you back to be his wife.”

1 Samuel 25:42

25:42 Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. ⁹  She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 27:2-3

27:2 So David left and crossed over to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath accompanied by his six hundred men. 27:3 David settled with Achish in Gath, along with his men and their families. ¹⁰  David had with him his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

[4:21]  ¹ sn The name Ichabod (אִי־כָבוֹד) may mean, “Where is the glory?”

[17:4]  ² tn Heb “the man of the space between the two [armies].” See v. 23.

[17:4]  ³ tc Heb “his height was six cubits and a span” (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV). A cubit was approximately eighteen inches, a span nine inches. So, according to the Hebrew tradition, Goliath was about nine feet, nine inches tall (cf. NIV, CEV, NLT “over nine feet”; NCV “nine feet, four inches”; TEV “nearly 3 metres”). However, some Greek witnesses, Josephus, and a manuscript of 1 Samuel from Qumran read “four cubits and a span” here, that is, about six feet, nine inches (cf. NAB “six and a half feet”). This seems more reasonable; it is likely that Goliath’s height was exaggerated as the story was retold. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 286, 291.

[17:48]  ⁴ tc Most LXX mss lack the second half of v. 48.

[23:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”

[24:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ⁸ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

[25:42]  ⁹ tn Heb “going at her feet.”

[27:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a man and his house.”