1 Samuel 1:9

1:9 On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. ¹  (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair ²  by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.)

1 Samuel 7:12

7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. ³  He named it Ebenezer, ⁴  saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 9:5

9:5 When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come on, let’s head back before my father quits worrying about the donkeys and becomes anxious about us!”

1 Samuel 23:25

23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ⁵  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

1 Samuel 25:37

25:37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, ⁶  his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 30:12

30:12 They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, ⁸  for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

[1:9]  ¹ tc The LXX adds “and stood before the Lord,” but this is probably a textual expansion due to the terseness of the statement in the Hebrew text.

[1:9]  ² tn Or perhaps, “on his throne.” See Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.

[7:12]  ³ tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”

[7:12]  ⁴ sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.

[23:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “to search.”

[25:37]  ⁶ tn Heb “when the wine had gone out from Nabal.”

[25:37]  ⁷ tn Heb “and his heart died within him and he became a stone.” Cf. TEV, NLT “stroke”; CEV “heart attack.” For an alternative interpretation than that presented above, see Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, “The Law of the Heart: The Death of a Fool (1 Samuel 25),” JBL 120 (2001): 401-27, who argues that a medical diagnosis is not necessary here. Instead, the passage makes a connection between the heart and the law; Nabal dies for his lawlessness.

[30:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “his spirit returned to him.”