1 Samuel 1:28

1:28 Now I dedicate him to the Lord. From this time on he is dedicated to the Lord.” Then they¹ worshiped the Lord there.

1 Samuel 2:32

2:32 You will see trouble in my dwelling place!² Israel will experience blessings,³ but there will not be an old man in your⁴ house for all time.⁵

1 Samuel 8:19

8:19 But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning.⁶ Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

1 Samuel 10:12

10:12 A man who was from there replied, “And who is their father?” Therefore this became a proverb: “Is even Saul among the prophets?”

1 Samuel 10:23

10:23 So they ran and brought him from there. When he took his position among the people, he stood head and shoulders above them all.

1 Samuel 14:9

14:9 If they say to us, ‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay⁷ right there and not go up to them.

1 Samuel 15:4

15:4 So Saul assembled⁸ the army⁹ and mustered them at Telaim. There were 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

1 Samuel 19:8

19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly¹⁰ and they ran away from him.

1 Samuel 23:22

23:22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely¹¹ where he is¹² and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

1 Samuel 26:13

26:13 Then David crossed to the other side and stood on the top of the hill some distance away; there was a considerable distance between them.

1 Samuel 30:9-10

30:9 So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there.¹³ 30:10 David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.

1 Samuel 30:19

30:19 There was nothing missing, whether small or great. He retrieved sons and daughters, the plunder, and everything else they had taken.¹⁴ David brought everything back.

¹tn Heb “he,” apparently referring to Samuel (but cf. CEV “Elkanah”). A few medieval manuscripts and some ancient versions take the verb as plural (cf. TEV, NLT).

²tn Heb “you will see [the] trouble of [the] dwelling place.” Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun is supplied in the translation (see v. 29).

³tn Heb “in all which he does good with Israel.”

⁴tc The LXX and a Qumran manuscript have the first person pronoun “my” here.

⁵tn Heb “all the days.”

⁶tn Heb “and the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel.”

⁷tn Heb “stand.”

⁸tn Heb “caused the people to hear.”

⁹tn Heb “people.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”

¹¹tn Heb “know and see.” The expression is a hendiadys. See also v. 23.

¹²tn Heb “his place where his foot is.”

¹³tn Heb “stood.” So also in v. 10.

¹⁴tn Heb “there was nothing missing to them, from the small even unto the great, and unto sons and daughters, and from loot even unto all which they had taken for themselves.”