1 Samuel 1:22

1:22 but Hannah did not go up with them. ¹  Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

1 Samuel 10:23

10:23 So they ran and brought him from there. When he took his position among the people, he stood head and shoulders above them all.

1 Samuel 11:5

11:5 Now Saul was walking behind the ²  oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, “What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?” So they told him about ³  the men of Jabesh.

1 Samuel 16:12

16:12 So Jesse had him brought in. ⁴  Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, “Go and anoint him. This is the one!”

1 Samuel 17:43

17:43 The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you are coming after me with sticks?” ⁵  Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

1 Samuel 30:19

30:19 There was nothing missing, whether small or great. He retrieved sons and daughters, the plunder, and everything else they had taken. ⁶  David brought everything back.

1 Samuel 31:3

31:3 Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ⁷  the archers ⁸  spotted him and wounded him severely.

[1:22]  ¹ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive here. The words “with them” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[11:5]  ² tn Or perhaps, “his oxen.” On this use of the definite article see Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.

[11:5]  ³ tn Heb “the matters of.”

[16:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he sent and brought him.”

[17:43]  ⁵ sn Sticks is a pejorative reference to David’s staff (v. 40); the same Hebrew word (מַקֵּל, maqqel) is used for both.

[30:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “there was nothing missing to them, from the small even unto the great, and unto sons and daughters, and from loot even unto all which they had taken for themselves.”

[31:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the battle was heavy against Saul.”

[31:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “the shooters, men with the bow.”