1 Samuel 2:21

2:21 So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord’s sanctuary. ¹ 

1 Samuel 30:6

30:6 David was very upset, for the men ²  were thinking of stoning him; ³  each man grieved bitterly ⁴  over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.

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¹ tn Heb “with the Lord.” Cf. NAB, TEV “in the service of the Lord”; NIV, NRSV, NLT “in the presence of the Lord”; CEV “at the Lord’s house in Shiloh.”

² tn Heb “people.”

³ tn Heb “said to stone him.”

⁴ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”