1 Samuel 1:23

1:23 So her husband Elkanah said to her, “Do what you think best.¹ Stay until you have weaned him. May the Lord fulfill his promise.”²

So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

1 Samuel 2:19

2:19 His mother used to make him a small robe and bring it up to him at regular intervals when she would go up with her husband to make the annual sacrifice.

1 Samuel 10:11

10:11 When everyone who had known him previously saw him prophesying with the prophets, the people all asked one another, “What on earth has happened to the son of Kish? Does even Saul belong with the prophets?”

1 Samuel 12:14

12:14 If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him³ and not rebelling against what he says,⁴ and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well.⁵

1 Samuel 14:13

14:13 Jonathan crawled up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer following behind him. Jonathan struck down the Philistines,⁶ while his armor bearer came along behind him and killed them.⁷

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him.⁸ When he arrived in Bethlehem,⁹ the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They¹⁰ said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 16:23

16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone.¹¹

1 Samuel 17:9

17:9 If he is able to fight with me and strike me down, we will become your servants. But if I prevail against him and strike him down, you will become our servants and will serve us.”

1 Samuel 18:5

18:5 On every mission on which Saul sent him, David achieved success. So Saul appointed him over the men of war. This pleased not only all the army, but also Saul’s servants.¹²

1 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself¹³ tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 19:18

19:18 Now David had run away and escaped. He went to Samuel in Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.

1 Samuel 22:2

22:2 All those who were in trouble or owed someone money or were discontented¹⁴ gathered around¹⁵ him, and he became their leader. He had about four hundred men with him.

1 Samuel 28:3

28:3 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented over him and had buried him in Ramah, his hometown.¹⁶ In the meantime Saul had removed the mediums¹⁷ and magicians¹⁸ from the land.

1 Samuel 30:12

30:12 They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him,¹⁹ for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

¹tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

²tn Heb “establish his word.” This apparently refers to the promise inherent in Eli’s priestly blessing (see v. 17).

³tn Heb “and you listen to his voice.”

⁴tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.” So also in v. 15.

⁵tn The words “all will be well” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶tn Heb “and they fell before Jonathan.”

⁷tn Heb “and the one carrying his equipment was killing after him.”

⁸tn Heb “said.”

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¹⁰tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

¹¹tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”

¹²tn Heb “it was good in the eyes of all the people and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul.”

¹³tn Heb “your life.”

¹⁴tn Heb “bitter of soul.”

¹⁵tn Heb “to.”

¹⁶tn Heb “in Ramah, even in his city.”

¹⁷tn The Hebrew term translated “mediums” actually refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits (see 2 Kgs 21:6). In v. 7 the witch of Endor is called the owner of a ritual pit. See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401. Here the term refers by metonymy to the owner of such a pit (see H. A. Hoffner, TDOT 1:133).

¹⁸sn See Isa 8:19 for another reference to magicians who attempted to conjure up underworld spirits.

¹⁹tn Heb “his spirit returned to him.”