1 Samuel 1:8
1:8 Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? 1 Am I not better to you than ten 2 sons?”
1 Samuel 19:22
19:22 Finally Saul 3 himself went to Ramah. When he arrived at the large cistern that is in Secu, he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” They said, “At Naioth in Ramah.”
1 tn Heb “why is your heart displeased?”
2 sn Like the number seven, the number ten is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number (see, for example, Dan 1:20, Zech 8:23).
3 tn Heb “he” (also in v. 23). the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.