1 Samuel 2:22

2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel ¹  and how they used to have sex with ²  the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 2:30

2:30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say ³  that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve ⁴  me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! ⁵  For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!

1 Samuel 4:4

4:4 So the army ⁶  sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Samuel 9:6

9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. ⁷  Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” ⁸ 

1 Samuel 9:13

9:13 When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won’t eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for ⁹  this is the time when you can find him!”

1 Samuel 9:24

9:24 So the cook picked up the leg and brought it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel ¹⁰  said, “What was kept is now set before you! Eat, for it has been kept for you for this meeting time, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

1 Samuel 12:10

12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, ¹¹  ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. ¹²  Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ ¹³ 

1 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ¹⁴  for himself a man who is loyal to him ¹⁵  and the Lord has appointed ¹⁶  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 14:3

14:3 Now Ahijah was carrying ¹⁷  an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 14:24

Jonathan Violates Saul’s Oath

14:24 Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: “Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.

1 Samuel 17:55

17:55 ¹⁸ Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”

1 Samuel 18:25

18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ¹⁹  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

1 Samuel 20:29

20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go, ²⁰  for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged ²¹  me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go ²²  to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

1 Samuel 22:6

Saul Executes the Priests

22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. ²³  Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.

1 Samuel 26:5

26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ²⁴  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ²⁵  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

1 Samuel 26:20

26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge ²⁶  in the hill country.”

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¹ tn Heb “to all Israel.”

² tn Heb “lie with.”

³ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

⁴ tn Heb “walk about before.”

⁵ tn Heb “may it be far removed from me.”

⁶ tn Or “people.”

⁷ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

⁸ tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”

⁹ tc The MT has “him” (אֹתוֹ, ’oto) here, in addition to the “him” at the end of the verse. The ancient versions attest to only one occurrence of the pronoun, although it is possible that this is due to translation technique rather than to their having a Hebrew text with the pronoun used only once. The present translation assumes textual duplication in the MT and does not attempt to represent the pronoun twice. However, for a defense of the MT here, with the suggested translation “for him just now – you will find him,” see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 72-73.

¹⁰ tn Heb “he” (also in v. 25); the referent (Samuel) has been specified in both places in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “and said.”

¹² tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.

sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.

¹³ tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

¹⁴ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

¹⁵ tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

¹⁶ tn Heb “commanded.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).

¹⁸ tc Most LXX mss lack 17:55–18:5.

¹⁹ tn Heb “the king’s.”

²⁰ tn Heb “send me.”

²¹ tn Heb “commanded.”

²² tn Heb “be released [from duty].”

²³ tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”

²⁴ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

²⁵ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”

²⁶ tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.