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 3:15
3:15 So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.
1 Samuel 14:9
14:9 If they say to us, ‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay 2 right there and not go up to them.
1 Samuel 15:18
15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign 3 saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you 4 have destroyed them.’
1 Samuel 19:23
19:23 So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. The Spirit of God came upon him as well, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel 25:22
25:22 God will severely punish David, 5 if I leave alive until morning even one male 6 from all those who belong to him!”
1 Samuel 27:6
27:6 So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (For that reason Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this very day.)
1 Samuel 30:17
30:17 But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels. 7
1 tn Heb “daughter of worthlessness.”
2 tn Heb “stand.”
3 tn Heb “journey.”
4 tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).
5 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.
6 tn Heb “one who urinates against a wall” (also in v. 34); KJV “any that pisseth against the wall.”
7 tn Heb “who rode on camels and fled.”