1 Samuel 4:18

4:18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli ¹  fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he ²  was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.

1 Samuel 7:3

7:3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. ³  Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you ⁴  from the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 15:12

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where ⁵  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ⁶  and went down to Gilgal.” ⁷ 

1 Samuel 16:18

16:18 One of his attendants replied, ⁸  “I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem ⁹  who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior ¹⁰  and is articulate ¹¹  and handsome, ¹²  for the Lord is with him.”

1 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. ¹³  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? ¹⁴ 

1 Samuel 20:21

20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; ¹⁵  get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

1 Samuel 20:27

20:27 But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David’s place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why has Jesse’s son not come to the meal yesterday or today?”

1 Samuel 23:23

23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. ¹⁶  Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him ¹⁷  among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 24:4

24:4 David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” ¹⁸  So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 24:10

24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity ¹⁹  on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ ²⁰ 

1 Samuel 25:17

25:17 Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. ²¹  He is such a wicked person ²²  that no one tells him anything!”

1 Samuel 25:26

25:26 “Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as surely as you live, it is the Lord who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:29

25:29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag ²³  of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ²⁴  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ²⁵  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

1 Samuel 27:1

David Aligns Himself with the Philistines

27:1 David thought to himself, ²⁶  “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”

1 Samuel 27:11

27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time ²⁷  that he lived in the country of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 30:8

30:8 David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Should I pursue this raiding band? Will I overtake them?” He said to him, “Pursue, for you will certainly overtake them and carry out a rescue!”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ²⁸  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ²⁹  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

[4:18]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:18]  ² tn Heb “the man.”

[7:3]  ³ tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity.

[7:3]  sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. The presence of Ashtarot in Israel is a sign of pervasive pagan and idolatrous influences; hence Samuel calls for their removal. See 1 Sam 31:10, where the Philistines deposit the armor of the deceased Saul in the temple of the Ashtarot, and 1 Kgs 11:5, 33; 2 Kgs 23:13, where Solomon is faulted for worshiping the Ashtarot.

[7:3]  ⁴ tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

[15:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “and look.”

[15:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

[15:12]  ⁷ tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”

[16:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[16:18]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “mighty man of valor and a man of war.”

[16:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “discerning of word.”

[16:18]  ¹² tn Heb “a man of form.”

[20:12]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”

[20:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “from you and here.”

[23:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “established.”

[23:23]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “I will search him out.”

[24:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”

[24:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.

[24:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “anointed.”

[25:17]  ²¹ tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”

[25:17]  ²² tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”

[25:29]  ²³ tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”

[26:16]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ²⁵ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”

[27:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “said to his heart.”

[27:11]  ²⁷ tn Heb “all the days.”

[30:16]  ²⁸ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:16]  ²⁹ tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”