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 3:10

3:10 Then the Lord came and stood nearby, calling as he had previously done, “Samuel! Samuel!” Samuel replied, “Speak, for your servant is listening!”

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.” ³ 

1 Samuel 20:40

20:40 Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the servant who was with him. He said to him, “Go, take these things back to the city.”

1 Samuel 23:10

23:10 Then David said, “O Lord God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is planning ⁴  to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.

1 Samuel 25:27

25:27 Now let this present ⁵  that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow ⁶  my lord.

1 Samuel 26:18

26:18 He went on to say, “Why is my lord chasing his servant? What have I done? What wrong have I done? ⁷ 

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ⁸  “He is really hated ⁹  among his own people in ¹⁰  Israel! From now on ¹¹  he will be my servant.”

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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 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

⁴ tn Heb “seeking.”

⁵ tn Heb “blessing.”

⁶ tn Heb “are walking at the feet of.”

⁷ tn Heb “What in my hand [is] evil?”

⁸ tn Heb “saying.”

⁹ tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

¹⁰ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

¹¹ tn Heb “permanently.”