1 Samuel 3:18

3:18 So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli ¹  said, “The Lord will do what he pleases.” ² 

1 Samuel 4:14

4:14 When Eli heard the outcry, ³  he said, “What is this commotion?” ⁴  The man quickly came and told Eli.

1 Samuel 19:2

19:2 So Jonathan told David, “My father Saul is trying ⁵  to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find ⁶  a hiding place and stay in seclusion. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 23:7

23:7 When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered ⁸  him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates.” ⁹ 

[3:18]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:18]  ² tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[4:14]  ³ tn Heb “the sound of the cry.”

[4:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “the sound of this commotion.”

[19:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “seeking.”

[19:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “stay in.”

[19:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and hide yourself.”

[23:7]  ⁸ tn The MT reading (“God has alienated him into my hand”) in v. 7 is a difficult and uncommon idiom. The use of this verb in Jer 19:4 is somewhat parallel, but not entirely so. Many scholars have therefore suspected a textual problem here, emending the word נִכַּר (nikkar, “alienated”) to סִכַּר (sikkar, “he has shut up [i.e., delivered]”). This is the idea reflected in the translations of the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate, although it is not entirely clear whether they are reading something different from the MT or are simply paraphrasing what for them too may have been a difficult text. The LXX has “God has sold him into my hands,” apparently reading מַכַר (makar, “sold”) for MT’s נִכַּר. The present translation is a rather free interpretation.

[23:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “with two gates and a bar.” Since in English “bar” could be understood as a saloon, it has been translated as an attributive: “two barred gates.”