1 Samuel 1:26

1:26 She said, “Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.

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 ¹  go up from here?”

1 Samuel 7:12

7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. ²  He named it Ebenezer, ³  saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 9:17

9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, ⁴  “Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people.”

1 Samuel 10:22

10:22 So they inquired again of the Lord, “Has the man arrived here yet?” The Lord said, “He has hidden himself among the equipment.” ⁵ 

1 Samuel 12:13

12:13 Now look! Here is the king you have chosen – the one that you asked for! Look, the Lord has given you a king!

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ⁶  Israel along the way when Israel ⁷  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 17:44

17:44 The Philistine said to David, “Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!” ⁸ 

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¹ 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.

² tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”

³ sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.

⁴ tn Heb “responded.”

⁵ tn Or “baggage” (so many English versions); KJV “stuff”; TEV “supplies.”

⁶ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have “the earth” here, instead of the MT’s “the field.”