1 Samuel 2:29

2:29 Why are you¹ scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place?² You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’

1 Samuel 4:3

4:3 When the army³ came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by⁴ the Philistines? Let’s take with us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Shiloh. When it is with us, it will save us⁵ from the hand of our enemies.

1 Samuel 6:3

6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of⁶ 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.”

1 Samuel 17:8

17:8 Goliath⁷ stood and called to Israel’s troops,⁸ “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose⁹ for yourselves a man so he may come down¹⁰ to me!

1 Samuel 17:28

17:28 When David’s¹¹ oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry¹² with David and said, “Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit!¹³ You have come down here to watch the battle!”

1 Samuel 19:5

19:5 He risked his life¹⁴ 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 22:13

22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave¹⁵ him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes¹⁶ me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”

1 Samuel 28:15

28:15 Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul replied, “I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me – not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do.”

¹tc The MT has a plural “you” here, but the LXX and a Qumran ms have the singular. The singular may be the correct reading; the verb “you have honored” later in the verse is singular even in the MT. However, it is more probable that the Lord here refers to Eli and his sons. Note the plural in the second half of the verse (“you have made yourselves fat”).

²tn Heb “which I commanded, dwelling place.” The noun is functioning as an adverbial accusative in relation to the verb. Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun “my” is supplied in the translation.

³tn Or “people.”

⁴tn Heb “before.”

⁵tn Heb “and it will come in our midst and it will save.” After the cohortative (see “let’s take”), the prefixed verbal forms with the prefixed conjunction indicate purpose or result. The translation understands the ark to be the subject of the third masculine singular verbs, although it is possible to understand the Lord as the subject. In the latter case, one should translate, “when he is with us, he will save us.”

⁶tc The LXX and a Qumran ms add “the covenant of the Lord.”

⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”

⁹tc The translation follows the ancient versions in reading “choose,” (from the root בחר, bkhr), rather than the MT. The verb in MT (ברה, brh) elsewhere means “to eat food”; the sense of “to choose,” required here by the context, is not attested for this root. The MT apparently reflects an early scribal error.

¹⁰tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.

¹¹tn Heb “his”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹²tn Heb “the anger of Eliab became hot.”

¹³tn Heb “the wickedness of your heart.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”

¹⁵tn Heb “by giving.”

¹⁶tn Heb “rises up against.”