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!
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.
4:19 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and close to giving birth. When she heard that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she doubled over and gave birth. But her labor pains were too much for her.
6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of 10 the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand is not removed from you.”
10:3 “As you continue on from there, you will come to the tall tree of Tabor. At that point three men who are going up to God at Bethel 16 will meet you. One of them will be carrying three young goats, one of them will be carrying three round loaves of bread, and one of them will be carrying a container of wine.
12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave 19 them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s 20 army, 21 and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 26
17:26 David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? 32 For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”
17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied! 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 tn Heb “they”; the referent (Eli’s sons) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “desired.”
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 tc Read with many medieval Hebrew
8 tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”
9 tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”
10 tc The LXX and a Qumran
11 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.
12 tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”
13 tn Heb “look.”
14 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin
15 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
16 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
17 tn Or “sentries.” Some translate “outpost” (NIV) or “garrison” (NAB, NRSV, NLT) here (see 1 Sam 13:3). The noun is plural in the Hebrew text, but the LXX and other ancient witnesses read a singular noun here.
18 tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).
19 tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”
20 map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.
21 tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”
22 tn Heb “plunder.”
23 tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”
24 tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”
25 tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.
26 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
27 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
28 tn Heb “for not that which the man sees.” The translation follows the LXX, which reads, “for not as man sees does God see.” The MT has suffered from homoioteleuton or homoioarcton. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 274.
29 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
30 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
31 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
32 tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”
33 tc The Hebrew text has simply “the
34 tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”
35 tn Heb “by giving.”
36 tn Heb “rises up against.”
37 tn Heb “set a matter against.”
38 tn Heb “small or great.”
39 tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”