1 Samuel 1:22

1:22 but Hannah did not go up with them. ¹  Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

1 Samuel 1:24

1:24 Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah ²  of flour, and a container ³  of wine. She brought him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 4:4

4:4 So the army ⁵  sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Samuel 5:3

5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, ⁶  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 6:14

6:14 The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

1 Samuel 10:25

10:25 Then Samuel talked to the people about how the kingship would work. ⁷  He wrote it all down on a scroll and set it before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away to their homes.

1 Samuel 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king ⁸  is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” ⁹  They said, “He is witness!”

1 Samuel 15:11

15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

1 Samuel 16:5

16:5 He replied, “Yes, in peace. I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” So he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 16:13

16:13 So Samuel took the horn full of olive oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. The Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day onward. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah.

1 Samuel 16:18

16:18 One of his attendants replied, ¹⁰  “I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem ¹¹  who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior ¹²  and is articulate ¹³  and handsome, ¹⁴  for the Lord is with him.”

1 Samuel 17:45

17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied!

1 Samuel 20:21

20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; ¹⁵  get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

1 Samuel 21:6

21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

1 Samuel 24:8

24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 30:6

30:6 David was very upset, for the men ¹⁶  were thinking of stoning him; ¹⁷  each man grieved bitterly ¹⁸  over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.

1 Samuel 30:23

30:23 But David said, “No! You shouldn’t do this, my brothers. Look at what the Lord has given us! ¹⁹  He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.

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¹ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive here. The words “with them” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² sn The ephah was a standard dry measure in OT times; it was the equivalent of one-tenth of the OT measure known as a homer. The ephah was equal to approximately one-half to two-thirds of a bushel.

³ tn The Hebrew term translated “container” may denote either a clay storage jar (cf. CEV “a clay jar full of wine”) or a leather container (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV “a skin of wine”; NCV “a leather bag filled with (full of TEV) wine.”

⁴ tc Heb “and the boy was a boy.” If the MT is correct the meaning apparently is that the boy was quite young at the time of these events. On the other hand, some scholars have suspected a textual problem, emending the text to read either “and the boy was with them” (so LXX) or “and the boy was with her” (a conjectural emendation). In spite of the difficulty it seems best to stay with the MT here.

⁵ tn Or “people.”

⁶ tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”

⁷ tn Heb “the regulation of the kingship.” This probably refers to the regulations pertaining to kingship given to Moses (see Deut 17:14-20).

⁸ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

⁹ tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “answered and said.”

¹¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

¹² tn Heb “mighty man of valor and a man of war.”

¹³ tn Heb “discerning of word.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “a man of form.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “from you and here.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “people.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “said to stone him.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”

¹⁹ tc This clause is difficult in the MT. The present translation accepts the text as found in the MT and understands this clause to be elliptical, with an understood verb such as “look” or “consider.” On the other hand, the LXX seems to reflect a slightly different Hebrew text, reading “after” where the MT has “my brothers.” The Greek translation yields the following translation: “You should not do this after the Lord has delivered us.” Although the Greek reading should be taken seriously, it seems better to follow the MT here.