1 Samuel 1:5

1:5 But he would give a double ¹  portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her. ²  Now the Lord had not enabled her to have children. ³ 

1 Samuel 8:22

8:22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say ⁴  and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”

1 Samuel 12:9

12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave ⁵  them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s ⁶  army, ⁷  and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

1 Samuel 15:24

15:24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the Lord commanded ⁸  and what you said as well. ⁹  For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes. ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 16:3

16:3 Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you should do. You will anoint for me the one I point out ¹¹  to you.”

1 Samuel 19:3

19:3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are. I will speak about you to my father. When I find out what the problem is, ¹²  I will let you know.”

1 Samuel 20:36

20:36 He said to his servant, “Run, find the arrows that I am about to shoot.” As the servant ran, Jonathan ¹³  shot the arrow beyond him.

1 Samuel 24:21

24:21 So now swear to me in the Lord’s name ¹⁴  that you will not kill ¹⁵  my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”

1 Samuel 30:11

30:11 Then they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink.

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¹ tn The exact sense of the Hebrew word אַפָּיִם (’appayim, “two faces”) is not certain here. It is most likely used with the preceding expression (“one portion of two faces”) to mean a portion double than normally received. Although evidence for this use of the word derives primarily from Aramaic rather than from Hebrew usage, it provides an understanding that fits the context here better than other suggestions for the word do. The meaning “double” is therefore adopted in the present translation. Other possibilities for the meaning of the word include the following: “heavily” (cf. Vulg., tristis) and “worthy” or “choice” (cf. KJV and Targum). Some scholars have followed the LXX here, emending the word to אֶפֶס (’efes) and translating it as “but” or “however.” This seems unnecessary. The translators of the LXX may simply have been struggling to make sense of the word rather than following a Hebrew text that was different from the MT here.

² tn Heb “for Hannah he loved.” Repetition of the proper name would seem redundant in contemporary English, so the pronoun (“her”) has been used here for clarity. The translation also adds the adverb “especially” to clarify the meaning of the text. Without this addition one might get the impression that only Hannah, not Peninnah, was loved by her husband. But the point of the text is that Hannah was his favorite.

³ tn Heb “and the Lord had closed her womb.” So also in v. 6. The disjunctive clause provides supplemental information that is pertinent to the story.

⁴ tn Heb “listen to their voice.”

⁵ tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”

⁶ map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

⁷ tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”

⁸ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

⁹ tn Heb “and your words.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and I listened to their voice.”

¹¹ tn Heb “say”; KJV, NRSV “name”; NIV “indicate.”

¹² tn Heb “when I see.”

¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Heb “by the Lord.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “cut off.”