1 Samuel 1:11
1:11 She made a vow saying, “O Lord of hosts, if you will look with compassion 1 on the suffering of your female servant, 2 remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child 3 to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.” 4
1 Samuel 4:13
4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of 5 the road, for he was very worried 6 about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, 7 the whole city cried out.
1 Samuel 14:12
14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” 8 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 9 them into the hand of Israel!”
1 Samuel 16:7
16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 10 his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 11 People look on the outward appearance, 12 but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 17:25
17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so 13 to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:39
17:39 David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire and tried to walk around, but he was not used to them. 14 David said to Saul, “I can’t walk in these things, for I’m not used to them.” So David removed them.
1 Samuel 18:27
18:27 when David, along with his men, went out 15 and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
1 Samuel 21:11
21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying, ‘Saul struck down his thousands,
But David his tens of thousands’?”
1 Samuel 22:6
Saul Executes the Priests
22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. 16 Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.
1 Samuel 22:15
22:15 Was it just today that I began to inquire of God on his behalf? Far be it from me! The king should not accuse 17 his servant or any of my father’s house. For your servant is not aware of all this – not in whole or in part!” 18
1 tn Heb “if looking you look.” The expression can refer, as here, to looking favorably upon another, in this case with compassion.
2 tn Heb “handmaid.” The use of this term (translated two more times in this verse and once each in vv. 16, 17 simply as “servant” for stylistic reasons) is an expression of humility.
3 tn Heb “seed of men.”
4 tn Heb “a razor will not go up upon his head.”
5 tc Read with many medieval Hebrew mss, the Qere, and much versional evidence יַד (yad, “hand”) rather than MT יַךְ (yakh).
6 tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”
7 tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”
8 tn Heb “a thing.”
9 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
10 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
11 tn Heb “for not that which the man sees.” The translation follows the LXX, which reads, “for not as man sees does God see.” The MT has suffered from homoioteleuton or homoioarcton. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 274.
12 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
13 tn Heb “he is coming up.”
14 tn Heb “he had not tested.”
15 tn Heb “arose and went.”
16 tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”
17 tn Heb “set a matter against.”
18 tn Heb “small or great.”