1 Samuel 1:21

Hannah Dedicates Samuel to the Lord

1:21 This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow,

1 Samuel 4:9

4:9 Be strong and act like men, you Philistines, or else you will wind up serving the Hebrews the way they have served you! Act like men and fight!”

1 Samuel 5:12

5:12 The people ¹  who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

1 Samuel 6:13

6:13 Now the residents of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were pleased at the sight.

1 Samuel 6:20

6:20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark ²  go up from here?”

1 Samuel 7:12

7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. ³  He named it Ebenezer, ⁴  saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 12:6

12:6 Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors ⁵  up from the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 14:9

14:9 If they say to us, ‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay ⁶  right there and not go up to them.

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ⁷  Israel along the way when Israel ⁸  came up from Egypt.

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 24:7

24:7 David restrained his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and started down ⁹  the road.

1 Samuel 24:22

24:22 David promised Saul this on oath. ¹⁰  Then Saul went to his house, and David and his men went up to the stronghold.

1 Samuel 25:5

25:5 he ¹¹  sent ten servants, ¹²  saying to them, ¹³  “Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name. ¹⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “men.”

² tn Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the Lord himself.

³ tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”

⁴ sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.

⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 8).

⁶ tn Heb “stand.”

⁷ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “went on.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and David swore an oath to Saul.”

¹¹ tn Heb “David”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun has been used in the translation.

¹² tn Or “young men.”

¹³ tn Heb “and David said to the young men.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and inquire concerning him in my name in regard to peace.”