1 Samuel 2:8

2:8 He lifts the weak ¹  from the dust;

he raises ²  the poor from the ash heap

to seat them with princes

and to bestow on them an honored position. ³ 

The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord,

and he has placed the world on them.

1 Samuel 6:17

6:17 These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the Lord – one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

1 Samuel 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king ⁴  is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” ⁵  They said, “He is witness!”

1 Samuel 12:19

12:19 All the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God on behalf of us – your servants – so we won’t die, for we have added to all our sins by asking for a king.” ⁶ 

1 Samuel 15:11

15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

1 Samuel 15:15

15:15 Saul said, “They were brought ⁷  from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

1 Samuel 15:30

15:30 Saul ⁸  again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”

1 Samuel 16:13

16:13 So Samuel took the horn full of olive oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. The Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day onward. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah.

1 Samuel 17:46

17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

1 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. ⁹  I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know? ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 30:6

30:6 David was very upset, for the men ¹¹  were thinking of stoning him; ¹²  each man grieved bitterly ¹³  over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.

[2:8]  ¹ tn Or “lowly”; Heb “insignificant.”

[2:8]  ² tn The imperfect verbal form, which is parallel to the participle in the preceding line, is best understood here as indicating what typically happens.

[2:8]  ³ tn Heb “a seat of honor.”

[12:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

[12:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”

[12:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “for we have added to all our sins an evil [thing] by asking for ourselves a king.”

[15:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “they brought them.”

[15:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:12]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text has simply “the Lord God of Israel.” On the basis of the Syriac version, many reconstruct the text to read “[is] my witness,” which may have fallen out of the text by homoioarcton (an error which is entirely possible if עֵד, ’ed, “witness,” immediately followed ַָדוִד, “David,” in the original text).

[20:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”

[30:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “people.”

[30:6]  ¹² tn Heb “said to stone him.”

[30:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”