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 4:13

4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of ³  the road, for he was very worried ⁴  about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, ⁵  the whole city cried out.

1 Samuel 5:11

5:11 So they assembled ⁶  all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us ⁷  and our ⁸  people!” The terror ⁹  of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 6:18

6:18 The gold mice corresponded in number to all the Philistine cities of the five leaders, from the fortified cities to hamlet villages, to greater Abel, ¹¹  where they positioned the ark of the Lord until this very day in the field of Joshua who was from Beth Shemesh.

1 Samuel 17:25

17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so ¹²  to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in 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 19:4

19:4 So Jonathan spoke on David’s behalf ¹³  to his father Saul. He said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial ¹⁴  for you.

1 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Taking an oath, David again ¹⁵  said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact ¹⁶  that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, ¹⁷  ‘Don’t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.’ But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!”

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 ¹⁸  on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ ¹⁹ 

1 Samuel 31:4

31:4 Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.

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¹ tn Heb “to all Israel.”

² tn Heb “lie with.”

³ tc Read with many medieval Hebrew mss, the Qere, and much versional evidence יַד (yad, “hand”) rather than MT יַךְ (yakh).

⁴ tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”

⁶ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

⁷ tn Heb “me.”

⁸ tn Heb “my.”

⁹ tn Or “panic.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”

¹¹ tc A few Hebrew mss and the LXX read “villages; the large rock…[is witness] until this very day.”

¹² tn Heb “he is coming up.”

¹³ tn Heb “spoke good with respect to David.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “good.”

¹⁵ tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”

¹⁶ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

¹⁷ tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.

¹⁸ tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.

¹⁹ tn Heb “anointed.”