1 Samuel 1:16
1:16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, 1 for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”
1 Samuel 1:18
1:18 She said, “May I, your servant, find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and got something to eat. 2 Her face no longer looked sad.
1 Samuel 1:20
1:20 After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking, “I asked the Lord for him. 3
1 Samuel 1:26
1:26 She said, “Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.
1 Samuel 1:28
1:28 Now I dedicate him to the Lord. From this time on he is dedicated to the Lord.” Then they 4 worshiped the Lord there.
1 Samuel 2:23-24
2:23 He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these 5 people.
2:24 This ought not to be, 6 my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.
1 Samuel 3:11
3:11 The Lord said to Samuel, “Look! I am about to do something in Israel; 7 when anyone hears about it, both of his ears will tingle.
1 Samuel 3:14
3:14 Therefore I swore an oath to the house of Eli, ‘The sin of the house of Eli can never be forgiven by sacrifice or by grain offering.’”
1 Samuel 9:17
9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, 8 “Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people.”
1 Samuel 12:7
12:7 Now take your positions, so I may confront you 9 before the Lord regarding all the Lord’s just actions toward you and your ancestors. 10
1 Samuel 14:7
14:7 His armor bearer said to him, “Do everything that is on your mind. 11 Do as you’re inclined. I’m with you all the way!” 12
1 Samuel 14:29
14:29 Then Jonathan said, “My father has caused trouble for the land. See how my eyes gleamed 13 when I tasted just a little of this honey.
1 Samuel 14:37
14:37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.
1 Samuel 15:1-2
Saul Is Rejected as King
15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. 14
15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed 15 Israel along the way when Israel 16 came up from Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:13-14
15:13 When Samuel came to him, 17 Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”
15:14 Samuel replied, “If that is the case, 18 then what is this sound of sheep in my ears and the sound of cattle that I hear?”
1 Samuel 17:10
17:10 Then the Philistine said, “I defy Israel’s troops this day! Give me a man so we can fight 19 each other!”
1 Samuel 17:43-44
17:43 The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you are coming after me with sticks?” 20 Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
17:44 The Philistine said to David, “Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!” 21
1 Samuel 17:58
17:58 Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David replied, “I am the son of your servant Jesse in Bethlehem.” 22
1 Samuel 18:11
18:11 and Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.
1 Samuel 19:15
19:15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”
1 Samuel 20:36
20:36 He said to his servant, “Run, find the arrows that I am about to shoot.” As the servant ran, Jonathan 23 shot the arrow beyond him.
1 Samuel 21:15
21:15 Do I have a shortage of fools, that you have brought me this man to display his insanity in front of me? Should this man enter my house?”
1 Samuel 22:9
22:9 But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with the servants of Saul, replied, “I saw this son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
1 Samuel 23:2
23:2 So David asked the Lord, “Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The Lord said to David, “Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”
1 Samuel 23:4
23:4 So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”
1 Samuel 23:22
23:22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely 24 where he is 25 and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.
1 Samuel 24:20
24:20 Now look, I realize that you will in fact be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.
1 Samuel 25:19
25:19 and said to her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:22
25:22 God will severely punish David, 26 if I leave alive until morning even one male 27 from all those who belong to him!”
1 Samuel 26:24
26:24 In the same way that I valued your life this day, 28 may the Lord value my life 29 and deliver me from all danger.”
1 Samuel 28:17
28:17 The Lord has done exactly as I prophesied! 30 The Lord has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David!
1 tn Heb “daughter of worthlessness.”
2 tc Several medieval Hebrew mss and the Syriac Peshitta lack the words “and got something to eat.”
3 tn Heb “because from the Lord I asked him.” The name “Samuel” sounds like the Hebrew verb translated “asked.” The explanation of the meaning of the name “Samuel” that is provided in v. 20 is not a strict etymology. It seems to suggest that the first part of the name is derived from the Hebrew root שׁאל (sh’l, “to ask”), but the consonants do not support this. Nor is it likely that the name comes from the root שׁמא (shm’, “to hear”), for the same reason. It more probably derives from שֶׁם (shem, “name”), so that “Samuel” means “name of God.” Verse 20 therefore does not set forth a linguistic explanation of the meaning of the name, but rather draws a parallel between similar sounds. This figure of speech is known as paronomasia.
4 tn Heb “he,” apparently referring to Samuel (but cf. CEV “Elkanah”). A few medieval manuscripts and some ancient versions take the verb as plural (cf. TEV, NLT).
5 tc For “these” the LXX has “of the Lord” (κυρίου, kuriou), perhaps through the influence of the final phrase of v. 24 (“the people of the Lord”). Somewhat less likely is the view that the MT reading is due to a distorted dittography of the first word of v. 24. The Vulgate lacks the word.
6 tn Heb “no.”
7 tn The Hebrew text adds “so that” here, formally connecting this clause with the next.
8 tn Heb “responded.”
9 tn Heb “and I will enter into judgment with you” (NRSV similar); NAB “and I shall arraign you.”
10 tn Heb “all the just actions which he has done with you and with your fathers.”
11 tn Heb “in your heart.”
12 tn Heb “Look, I am with you, according to your heart.” See the note at 13:14.
13 tc The LXX reads “saw.” See v. 27.
14 tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).
15 tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”
16 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “to Saul.”
18 tn The words “if that is the case” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
19 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative verbal form indicates purpose/result here.
20 sn Sticks is a pejorative reference to David’s staff (v. 40); the same Hebrew word (מַקֵּל, maqqel) is used for both.
21 tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have “the earth” here, instead of the MT’s “the field.”
22 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “know and see.” The expression is a hendiadys. See also v. 23.
25 tn Heb “his place where his foot is.”
26 tc Heb “Thus God will do to the enemies of David and thus he will add.” Most of the Old Greek ms tradition has simply “David,” with no reference to his enemies. In OT imprecations such as the one found in v. 22 it is common for the speaker to direct malediction toward himself as an indication of the seriousness with which he regards the matter at hand. In other words, the speaker invites on himself dire consequences if he fails to fulfill the matter expressed in the oath. However, in the situation alluded to in v. 22 the threat actually does not come to fruition due to the effectiveness of Abigail’s appeal to David in behalf of her husband Nabal. Instead, David is placated through Abigail’s intervention. It therefore seems likely that the reference to “the enemies of David” in the MT of v. 22 is the result of a scribal attempt to deliver David from the implied consequences of this oath. The present translation follows the LXX rather than the MT here.
27 tn Heb “one who urinates against a wall” (also in v. 34); KJV “any that pisseth against the wall.”
28 tn Heb “your life was great this day in my eyes.”
29 tn Heb “may my life be great in the eyes of the Lord.”
30 tn Heb “just as he said by my hand.”