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 5:9

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked ³  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city ⁴  with sores. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 13:8

13:8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. ⁶  But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. ⁷ 

[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.”

[5:9]  ³ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

[5:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

[5:9]  ⁵ tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

[13:8]  ⁶ tn This apparently refers to the instructions given by Samuel in 1 Sam 10:8. If so, several years had passed. On the relationship between chs. 10 and 13, see V. P. Long, The Art of Biblical History (FCI), 201-23.

[13:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”