1 Samuel 1:7

1:7 Peninnah ¹  would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah ²  went up to the Lord’s house, Peninnah ³  would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.

1 Samuel 3:20

3:20 All Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba realized that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord.

1 Samuel 4:6

4:6 When the Philistines heard the sound of the shout, they said, “What is this loud shout in the camp of the Hebrews?” Then they realized that the ark of the Lord had arrived at the camp.

1 Samuel 4:16

4:16 The man said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli ⁴  asked, “How did things go, my son?”

1 Samuel 9:17

9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, ⁵  “Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people.”

1 Samuel 12:23

12:23 As far as I am concerned, far be it from me to sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the way that is good and upright.

1 Samuel 14:3

14:3 Now Ahijah was carrying ⁶  an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 17:51

17:51 David ran and stood over the Philistine. He grabbed Goliath’s ⁷  sword, drew it from its sheath, ⁸  killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they ran away.

1 Samuel 20:26

20:26 However, Saul said nothing about it ⁹  that day, for he thought, ¹⁰  “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”

1 Samuel 24:15

24:15 May the Lord be our judge and arbiter. May he see and arbitrate my case and deliver me from your hands!”

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. ¹¹  David brought everything back.

[1:7]  ¹ tn The MT has a masculine form of the verb here יַעֲשֶׂה (ya’aseh, “he used to do”); the subject in that case would presumably be Elkanah. But this leads to an abrupt change of subject in the following part of the verse, where the subject is the rival wife who caused Hannah anxiety. In light of v. 6 one expects the statement of v. 7 to refer to the ongoing actions of the rival wife: “she used to behave in this way year after year.” Some scholars have proposed retaining the masculine form but changing the vocalization of the verb so as to read a Niphal rather than a Qal (i.e., יֵעֲשֶׂה, ye’aseh, “so it used to be done”). But the problem here is lack of precedent for such a use of the Niphal of this verb. It seems best in light of the context to understand the reference to be to Hannah’s rival Peninnah and to read here, with the Syriac Peshitta, a feminine form of the verb (“she used to do”). In the translation the referent (Peninnah) has been specified for clarity.

[1:7]  ² tn Heb “she”; the referent (Hannah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Peninnah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “responded.”

[14:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).

[17:51]  ⁷ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:51]  ⁸ tc Most LXX mss lack the words “drew it from its sheath.”

[20:26]  ⁹ tn The words “about it” are not present in the Hebrew text, although they are implied.

[20:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself.

[30:19]  ¹¹ 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.”