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 5:3

5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, 3  Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

1 Samuel 15:12

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where 4  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left 5  and went down to Gilgal.” 6 

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 tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”

4 tn Heb “and look.”

5 tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

6 tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”