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 4:21
4:21 She named the boy Ichabod, 3 saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
1 Samuel 25:35
25:35 Then David took from her hand what she had brought to him. He said to her, “Go back 4 to your home in peace. Be assured that I have listened to you 5 and responded favorably.” 6
1 Samuel 28:7
28:7 So Saul instructed his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, 7 so that I may go to her and inquire of her.” His servants replied to him, “There is a woman who is a medium in Endor.”
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 sn The name Ichabod (אִי־כָבוֹד) may mean, “Where is the glory?”
4 tn Heb “up.”
5 tn Heb “your voice.”
6 tn Heb “I have lifted up your face.”
7 tn Heb “an owner of a ritual pit.” See the note at v. 3.