1 Samuel 1:15

1:15 But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is, 1  my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. 2  I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to 3  the Lord.

1 Samuel 13:12

13:12 I thought, 4  ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated 5  to offer the burnt offering.”

1 Samuel 15:11

15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

1 Samuel 15:20

15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed 6  the Lord! I went on the campaign 7  the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 25:11

25:11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”

1 Samuel 26:21

26:21 Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won’t harm you, for you treated my life with value 8  this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!” 9 

1 tn Heb “No.”

2 tn Heb “I am a woman difficult of spirit.” The LXX has “for whom the day is difficult,” apparently mistaking the Hebrew word for “spirit” רוּחַ (ruakh) to be the word for “day” יוֹם (yom).

3 tn Heb “before.”

4 tn Heb “said.”

5 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”

6 tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

7 tn Heb “journey.”

8 tn Heb “my life was valuable in your eyes.”

9 tn Heb “and I have erred very greatly.”