1 Samuel 1:19

1:19 They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the Lord, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with ¹  his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered ²  her.

1 Samuel 2:29

2:29 Why are you ³  scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? ⁴  You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’

1 Samuel 3:8

3:8 Then the Lord called Samuel a third time. So he got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me!” Eli then realized that it was the Lord who was calling the boy.

1 Samuel 4:3

4:3 When the army ⁵  came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by ⁶  the Philistines? Let’s take with us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Shiloh. When it is with us, it will save us ⁷  from the hand of our enemies.

1 Samuel 9:20

9:20 Don’t be concerned ⁸  about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” ⁹ 

1 Samuel 10:11

10:11 When everyone who had known him previously saw him prophesying with the prophets, the people all asked one another, “What on earth has happened to the son of Kish? Does even Saul belong with the prophets?”

1 Samuel 17:25

17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so ¹⁰  to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”

1 Samuel 21:6

21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

1 Samuel 21:9

David Goes to Gath

21:9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, is wrapped in a garment behind the ephod. If you wish, take it for yourself. Other than that, there’s nothing here.” David said, “There’s nothing like it! Give it to me!”

1 Samuel 22:17

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers ¹¹  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ¹²  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ¹³  the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 23:11

23:11 Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, please inform your servant!”

Then the Lord said, “He will come down.”

1 Samuel 24:6

24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, ¹⁴  by extending my hand against him. After all, ¹⁵  he is the Lord’s chosen one.” ¹⁶ 

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ¹⁷  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ¹⁸  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

1 Samuel 30:13

30:13 David said to him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” The young man said, “I am an Egyptian, the servant of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me when I was ill for three days.

[1:19]  ¹ tn Heb “Elkanah knew his wife.” The Hebrew expression is a euphemism for sexual relations.

[1:19]  ² sn The Lord “remembered” her in the sense of granting her earlier request for a child. The Hebrew verb is often used in the OT for considering the needs or desires of people with favor and kindness.

[2:29]  ³ tc The MT has a plural “you” here, but the LXX and a Qumran ms have the singular. The singular may be the correct reading; the verb “you have honored” later in the verse is singular even in the MT. However, it is more probable that the Lord here refers to Eli and his sons. Note the plural in the second half of the verse (“you have made yourselves fat”).

[2:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “which I commanded, dwelling place.” The noun is functioning as an adverbial accusative in relation to the verb. Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun “my” is supplied in the translation.

[4:3]  ⁵ tn Or “people.”

[4:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “before.”

[4:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “and it will come in our midst and it will save.” After the cohortative (see “let’s take”), the prefixed verbal forms with the prefixed conjunction indicate purpose or result. The translation understands the ark to be the subject of the third masculine singular verbs, although it is possible to understand the Lord as the subject. In the latter case, one should translate, “when he is with us, he will save us.”

[9:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”

[9:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”

[17:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he is coming up.”

[22:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “runners.”

[22:17]  ¹² tn Heb “their hand is.”

[22:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

[24:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “anointed.”

[24:6]  ¹⁵ tn Or “for.”

[24:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “anointed.”

[25:18]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “skins.”

[25:18]  ¹⁸ sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.