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 4:17

4:17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled from 4  the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”

1 Samuel 5:9

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked 5  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city 6  with sores. 7 

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 “before.”

5 tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

6 tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

7 tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”