1 Samuel 3:21

3:21 Then the Lord again appeared in Shiloh, for it was in Shiloh that the Lord had revealed himself to Samuel ¹  through the word of the Lord. ² 

1 Samuel 7:4

7:4 So the Israelites ³  removed the Baals and images of Ashtoreth. They served only the Lord.

1 Samuel 8:10

8:10 So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.

1 Samuel 12:16

12:16 “So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.

1 Samuel 12:25

12:25 But if you continue to do evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

1 Samuel 14:8

14:8 Jonathan replied, “All right! ⁴  We’ll go over to these men and fight them.

1 Samuel 15:34

15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah, while Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

1 Samuel 16:17

16:17 So Saul said to his servants, “Find ⁵  me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”

1 Samuel 17:5

17:5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 17:14

17:14 Now David was the youngest. While the three oldest sons followed Saul,

1 Samuel 17:41

17:41 ⁷ The Philistine kept coming closer to David, with his shield bearer walking in front of him.

1 Samuel 17:53

17:53 When the Israelites returned from their hot pursuit of the Philistines, they looted their camp.

1 Samuel 18:7

18:7 The women who were playing the music sang,

“Saul has struck down his thousands,

but David his tens of thousands!”

1 Samuel 18:12

18:12 So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.

1 Samuel 20:10

20:10 David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

1 Samuel 22:20

22:20 But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar.

1 Samuel 23:15

23:15 David realized ⁸  that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.

1 Samuel 23:29

23:29 (24:1) ⁹  Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi.

1 Samuel 25:16

25:16 Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.

1 Samuel 28:16

28:16 Samuel said, “Why are you asking me, now that the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy?

1 Samuel 30:10

30:10 David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.

[3:21]  ¹ tc The LXX has a lengthy addition here: “And Samuel was acknowledged to be a prophet of the Lord in all Israel, from one end to the other. Eli was very old and, as for his sons, their way kept getting worse and worse before the Lord.” The Hebraic nature of the Greek syntax used here suggests that the LXX translator was accurately rendering a Hebrew variant and not simply expanding the text on his own initiative.

[3:21]  ² tn The chapter division at this point is inappropriate. 1 Sam 4:1a is best understood as the conclusion to chap. 3 rather than the beginning of chap. 4.

[7:4]  ³ tn Heb “the sons of Israel.”

[14:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look!”

[16:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “see.”

[17:5]  ⁶ sn Although the exact weight of Goliath’s defensive body armor is difficult to estimate in terms of modern equivalency, it was obviously quite heavy. Driver, following Kennedy, suggests a modern equivalent of about 220 pounds (100 kg); see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 139. Klein, taking the shekel to be equal to .403 ounces, arrives at a somewhat smaller weight of about 126 pounds (57 kg); see R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 175. But by any estimate it is clear that Goliath presented himself as a formidable foe indeed.

[17:41]  ⁷ tc Most LXX mss lack v. 41.

[23:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “saw.”

[23:29]  ⁹ sn Beginning with 23:29, the verse numbers through 24:22 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 23:29 ET = 24:1 HT, 24:1 ET = 24:2 HT, 24:2 ET = 24:3 HT, etc., through 24:22 ET = 24:23 HT. With 25:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.