1 Samuel 4:8

4:8 Too bad for us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert!

1 Samuel 12:8

12:8 When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the Lord. The Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

1 Samuel 12:11

12:11 So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, ¹  Barak, ²  Jephthah, and Samuel, ³  and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.

1 Samuel 14:11

14:11 When they ⁴  made themselves known to the Philistine garrison, the Philistines said, “Look! The Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they hid themselves.”

1 Samuel 24:21

24:21 So now swear to me in the Lord’s name ⁵  that you will not kill ⁶  my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”

1 Samuel 25:33

25:33 Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded ⁷  for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!

1 Samuel 26:20

26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge ⁸  in the hill country.”

[12:11]  ¹ sn Jerub-Baal (יְרֻבַּעַל) is also known as Gideon (see Judg 6:32). The Book of Judges uses both names for him.

[12:11]  ² tc The MT has “Bedan” (בְּדָן) here (cf. KJV, NASB, CEV). But a deliverer by this name is not elsewhere mentioned in the OT. The translation follows the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “Barak.”

[12:11]  ³ tc In the ancient versions there is some confusion with regard to these names, both with regard to the particular names selected for mention and with regard to the order in which they are listed. For example, the LXX has “Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel.” But the Targum has “Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, and Samuel,” while the Syriac Peshitta has “Deborah, Barak, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson.”

[14:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the two of them.”

[24:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “by the Lord.”

[24:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “cut off.”

[25:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “blessed.”

[26:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.