1 Samuel 2:14

2:14 He would jab it into the basin, kettle, caldron, or pot, and everything that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they used to do to all the Israelites ¹  when they came there to Shiloh.

1 Samuel 6:19

6:19 But the Lord ²  struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord; he struck down 50,070 ³  of the men. The people grieved because the Lord had struck the people with a hard blow.

1 Samuel 14:12

14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” ⁴  Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given ⁵  them into the hand of Israel!”

1 Samuel 17:46

17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

1 Samuel 24:4

24:4 David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” ⁶  So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 24:10

24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity ⁷  on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ ⁸ 

1 Samuel 25:26

25:26 “Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as surely as you live, it is the Lord who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 29:4

29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said ⁹  to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become ¹⁰  our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 29:8

29:8 But David said to Achish, “What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”

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¹ tn Heb “to all Israel.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tc The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew mss lack “50,000,” reading simply “70” instead. However, there does not seem to be sufficient external evidence to warrant reading 70 rather than 50,070, although that is done by a number of recent translations (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). The present translation (reluctantly) follows the MT and the ancient versions here.

⁴ tn Heb “a thing.”

⁵ tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.

⁶ tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”

⁷ tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.

⁸ tn Heb “anointed.”

⁹ tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “so that he might not become.”

¹¹ tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.