1 Samuel 2:23
2:23 He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these 1 people.
1 Samuel 5:6
5:6 The Lord attacked 2 the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of 3 both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. 4
1 Samuel 6:6
6:6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? 5 When God 6 treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way? 7
1 Samuel 6:10
6:10 So the men did as instructed. 8 They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.
1 Samuel 7:11
7:11 Then the men of Israel left Mizpah and chased the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth Car.
1 Samuel 8:16
8:16 He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.
1 Samuel 10:4
10:4 They will ask you how you’re doing and will give you two loaves of bread. You will accept them.
1 Samuel 10:6
10:6 Then the spirit of the Lord will rush upon you and you will prophesy with them. You will be changed into a different person.
1 Samuel 10:23
10:23 So they ran and brought him from there. When he took his position among the people, he stood head and shoulders above them all.
1 Samuel 11:8
11:8 When Saul counted them at Bezek, the Israelites were 300,000 9 strong and the men of Judah numbered 30,000. 10
1 Samuel 11:12
Saul Is Established as King
11:12 Then the people said to Samuel, “Who were the ones asking, ‘Will Saul reign over us?’ Hand over those men so we may execute them!”
1 Samuel 13:16
13:16 Saul, his son Jonathan, and the army that remained with them stayed in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped in Micmash. 11
1 Samuel 14:9
14:9 If they say to us, ‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay 12 right there and not go up to them.
1 Samuel 14:22
14:22 When all the Israelites who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, they too pursued them in battle.
1 Samuel 14:37
14:37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.
1 Samuel 15:4
15:4 So Saul assembled 13 the army 14 and mustered them at Telaim. There were 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.
1 Samuel 16:20
16:20 So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat 15 and sent them to Saul with 16 his son David.
1 Samuel 19:8
19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly 17 and they ran away from him.
1 Samuel 20:11
20:11 Jonathan said to David, “Come on. Let’s go out to the field.” When the two of them had gone out into the field,
1 Samuel 22:4
22:4 So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time 18 that David was in the stronghold.
1 Samuel 23:5
23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. 19 David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Samuel 23:18
23:18 When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.
1 Samuel 24:7
24:7 David restrained his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and started down 20 the road.
1 Samuel 25:5
25:5 he 21 sent ten servants, 22 saying to them, 23 “Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name. 24
1 Samuel 25:14
25:14 But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet 25 our lord, but he screamed at them.
1 Samuel 25:16
25:16 Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.
1 Samuel 25:20
25:20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.
1 Samuel 26:13
26:13 Then David crossed to the other side and stood on the top of the hill some distance away; there was a considerable distance between them.
1 Samuel 30:20
30:20 David took all the flocks and herds and drove them in front of the rest of the animals. People were saying, “This is David’s plunder!”
1 Samuel 31:1
The Death of Saul
31:1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel. The men of Israel fled from the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.
1 tc For “these” the LXX has “of the Lord” (κυρίου, kuriou), perhaps through the influence of the final phrase of v. 24 (“the people of the Lord”). Somewhat less likely is the view that the MT reading is due to a distorted dittography of the first word of v. 24. The Vulgate lacks the word.
2 tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was heavy upon.”
3 tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
4 tc The LXX and Vulgate add the following: “And mice multiplied in their land, and the terror of death was throughout the entire city.”
tn Or “tumors” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NCV “growths on their skin”; KJV “emerods”; NAB “hemorrhoids.”
5 tn Heb “like Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their heart.”
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “and they sent them away and they went.”
8 tn Heb “and the men did so.”
9 tc The LXX and two Old Latin mss read 600,000 here, rather than the MT’s 300,000.
10 tc The LXX, two Old Latin mss, and a Qumran ms read 70,000 here, rather than the MT’s 30,000.
11 tn The juxtaposition of disjunctive clauses in v.16 indicates synchronic action.
12 tn Heb “stand.”
13 tn Heb “caused the people to hear.”
14 tn Heb “people.”
15 tn Heb “a kid of the goats.”
16 tn Heb “by the hand of.”
17 tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”
18 tn Heb “all the days.”
19 tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”
20 tn Heb “went on.”
21 tn Heb “David”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun has been used in the translation.
22 tn Or “young men.”
23 tn Heb “and David said to the young men.”
24 tn Heb “and inquire concerning him in my name in regard to peace.”
25 tn Heb “bless.”