1 Samuel 3:15

3:15 So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.

1 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled. ¹ 

1 Samuel 15:16

15:16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Wait a minute! ²  Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night.” Saul ³  said to him, “Tell me.”

1 Samuel 19:6-7

19:6 Saul accepted Jonathan’s advice ⁴  and took an oath, “As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death.” 19:7 Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he had done formerly. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 20:23

20:23 With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!” ⁶ 

1 Samuel 25:9

25:9 So David’s servants went and spoke all these words to Nabal in David’s name. Then they paused.

[3:19]  ¹ tn Heb “and he did not cause to fall from all his words to the ground.”

[15:16]  ² tn Or perhaps “be quiet.”

[15:16]  ³ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading the singular (“he said”) rather than the plural (“they said”) of the Kethib.

[15:16]  tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “and Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan.”

[19:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he was before him as before.”

[20:23]  ⁶ tc Heb “the Lord [is] between me and between you forever.” The translation assumes that the original text read עֵד עַד־עוֹלָם (’ed ’ad-’olam), “a witness forever,” with the noun “a witness” accidentally falling out of the text by haplography. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 338.