1 Samuel 2:28

2:28 I chose your ancestor ¹  from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifice on my altar, to burn incense, and to bear the ephod before me. I gave to your ancestor’s house all the fire offerings made by the Israelites.

1 Samuel 4:19

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.

1 Samuel 12:9

12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave ²  them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s ³  army, ⁴  and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

1 Samuel 18:27

18:27 when David, along with his men, went out ⁵  and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

1 Samuel 19:5

19:5 He risked his life ⁶  when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”

1 Samuel 21:6

21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

1 Samuel 22:13

22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave ⁷  him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes ⁸  me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”

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¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Eli’s ancestor, i.e., Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² 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.”

³ map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

⁴ tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”

⁵ tn Heb “arose and went.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”

⁷ tn Heb “by giving.”

⁸ tn Heb “rises up against.”