1 Samuel 1:3

1:3 Year after year¹ this man would go up from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh. It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the Lord’s priests.

1 Samuel 14:36

14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout² them until the break of day.³ We won’t leave any of them alive!”⁴ They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.”⁵ But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

1 Samuel 15:6

15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away⁶ with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 17:20

17:20 So David got up early in the morning and entrusted the flock to someone else who would watch over it.⁷ After loading up, he went just as Jesse had instructed him. He arrived at the camp⁸ as the army was going out to the battle lines shouting its battle cry.

1 Samuel 18:6

18:6 When the men⁹ arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments.¹⁰

1 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness.¹¹ I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know?¹²

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;¹³ get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

1 Samuel 24:6

24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one,¹⁴ by extending my hand against him. After all,¹⁵ he is the Lord’s chosen one.”¹⁶

¹tn Heb “from days to days.”

²tn Heb “plunder.”

³tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”

⁴tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”

⁵tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.

⁶tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסִפְךָ (’esfÿka, “I sweep you away,” from the root ספה [sfh]) rather than the MT אֹסִפְךָ (’osifÿka, “I am gathering you,” from the root אסף[’sf]).

⁷tn Heb “to a guard”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “with a keeper”; NIV “with a shepherd.” Since in contemporary English “guard” sounds like someone at a military installation or a prison, the present translation uses “to someone else who would watch over it.”

⁸tn Or “entrenchment.”

⁹tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.

¹⁰tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”

¹¹tc The Hebrew text has simply “the Lord God of Israel.” On the basis of the Syriac version, many reconstruct the text to read “[is] my witness,” which may have fallen out of the text by homoioarcton (an error which is entirely possible if עֵד, ’ed, “witness,” immediately followed ַָדוִד, “David,” in the original text).

¹²tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”

¹³tn Heb “from you and here.”

¹⁴tn Heb “anointed.”

¹⁵tn Or “for.”

¹⁶tn Heb “anointed.”