1 Samuel 2:10

2:10 The Lord shatters¹ his adversaries;²

he thunders against them from³ the heavens.

The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth.

He will strengthen⁴ his king

and exalt the power⁵ of his anointed one.”⁶

1 Samuel 5:9

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked⁷ that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city⁸ with sores.⁹

1 Samuel 7:6

7:6 After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed¹⁰ there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel led¹¹ the people of Israel at Mizpah.

1 Samuel 7:14

7:14 The cities that the Philistines had captured from Israel were returned to Israel, from Ekron to Gath. Israel also delivered their territory from the control¹² of the Philistines. There was also peace between Israel and the Amorites.

1 Samuel 9:2

9:2 He had a son named Saul, a handsome young man. There was no one among the Israelites more handsome than he was; he stood head and shoulders above all the people.

1 Samuel 22:18

22:18 Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five¹³ men who wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 26:15

26:15 David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? After all, who is like you in Israel? Why then haven’t you protected your lord the king? One of the soldiers came to kill your lord the king.

¹tn The imperfect verbal forms in this line and in the next two lines are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.

²tc The present translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate in reading the plural (“his adversaries,” similarly many other English versions) rather than the singular (“his adversary”) of the Kethib.

³tn The Hebrew preposition here has the sense of “from within.”

⁴tn The imperfect verbal forms in this and the next line are understood as indicating what is anticipated and translated with the future tense, because at the time of Hannah’s prayer Israel did not yet have a king.

⁵tn Heb “the horn,” here a metaphor for power or strength. Cf. NCV “make his appointed king strong”; NLT “increases the might of his anointed one.”

⁶tc The LXX greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23-24.

sn The anointed one is the anticipated king of Israel, as the preceding line makes clear.

⁷tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

⁸tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

⁹tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

¹⁰tn Heb “said.”

¹¹tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”

¹²tn Heb “hand.”

¹³tc The number is confused in the Greek ms tradition. The LXX, with the exception of the Lucianic recension, has the number 305. The Lucianic recension, along with a couple of Old Latin mss, has the number 350.