1 Samuel 4:20

4:20 As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, “Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention. ¹ 

1 Samuel 5:3

5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, ²  Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

1 Samuel 7:12

7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. ³  He named it Ebenezer, ⁴  saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 20:14

20:14 While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the Lord, or else I will die!

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ⁵  “He is really hated ⁶  among his own people in ⁷  Israel! From now on ⁸  he will be my servant.”

[4:20]  ¹ tn Heb “and she did not set her heart.”

[5:3]  ² tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”

[7:12]  ³ tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”

[7:12]  ⁴ sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.

[27:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

[27:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

[27:12]  ⁷ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

[27:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “permanently.”