1 Samuel 1:19

1:19 They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the Lord, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with ¹  his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered ²  her.

1 Samuel 4:6

4:6 When the Philistines heard the sound of the shout, they said, “What is this loud shout in the camp of the Hebrews?” Then they realized that the ark of the Lord had arrived at the camp.

1 Samuel 5:10

5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.

But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here ³  to kill our ⁴  people!”

1 Samuel 7:1

7:1 Then the people ⁵  of Kiriath Jearim came and took the ark of the Lord; they brought it to the house of Abinadab located on the hill. They consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the Lord.

1 Samuel 8:7

8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. ⁶  For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

1 Samuel 9:14

9:14 So they went up to the town. As they were heading for the middle of the town, Samuel was coming in their direction ⁷  to go up to the high place.

1 Samuel 11:5

11:5 Now Saul was walking behind the ⁸  oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, “What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?” So they told him about ⁹  the men of Jabesh.

1 Samuel 11:15

11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, where ¹⁰  they established Saul as king in the Lord’s presence. They offered up peace offerings there in the Lord’s presence. Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.

1 Samuel 18:8

18:8 This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought, ¹¹  “They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?”

1 Samuel 19:20

19:20 So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw a company of prophets prophesying with Samuel standing there as their leader, the spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

1 Samuel 20:41

20:41 When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, ¹²  knelt ¹³  with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

1 Samuel 25:7

25:7 Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 31:9

31:9 They cut off Saul’s ¹⁴  head and stripped him of his armor. They sent messengers to announce the news in the temple of their idols and among their people throughout the surrounding land of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 31:12

31:12 all their warriors set out and traveled throughout the night. They took Saul’s corpse and the corpses of his sons from the city wall of Beth Shan and went ¹⁵  to Jabesh, where they burned them.

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¹ tn Heb “Elkanah knew his wife.” The Hebrew expression is a euphemism for sexual relations.

² sn The Lord “remembered” her in the sense of granting her earlier request for a child. The Hebrew verb is often used in the OT for considering the needs or desires of people with favor and kindness.

³ tn Heb “to me.”

⁴ tn Heb “my.”

⁵ tn Heb “men.”

⁶ tn Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”

⁷ tn Heb “to meet them.” This may indicate purpose on Samuel’s part. The next sentence indicates that the meeting was by design, not just an accident.

⁸ tn Or perhaps, “his oxen.” On this use of the definite article see Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.

⁹ tn Heb “the matters of.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and there in Gilgal.”

¹¹ tn Heb “said.” So also in vv. 11, 17.

¹² tc The translation follows the LXX in reading “the mound,” rather than the MT’s “the south.” It is hard to see what meaning the MT reading “from beside the south” would have as it stands, since such a location lacks specificity. The NIV treats it as an elliptical expression, rendering the phrase as “from the south side of the stone (rock NCV).” This is perhaps possible, but it seems better to follow the LXX rather than the MT here.

¹³ tn Heb “fell.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity (likewise in the following verse).

¹⁵ tc The translation follows the MT, which vocalizes the verb as a Qal. The LXX, however, treats the verb as a Hiphil, “they brought.”