1 Samuel 2:3

2:3 Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly, ¹ 

letting proud talk come out of your mouth!

For the Lord is a God who knows;

he ²  evaluates what people do.

1 Samuel 2:23-24

2:23 He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these ³  people. 2:24 This ought not to be, ⁴  my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.

1 Samuel 5:6

5:6 The Lord attacked ⁵  the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of ⁶  both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 5:12

5:12 The people ⁸  who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

1 Samuel 7:2

Further Conflict with the Philistines

7:2 It was quite a long time – some twenty years in all – that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people ⁹  of Israel longed for ¹⁰  the Lord.

1 Samuel 8:19

8:19 But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. ¹¹  Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

1 Samuel 9:12

9:12 They replied, “Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.

1 Samuel 9:17

9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, ¹²  “Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people.”

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 11:12

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 12:6

12:6 Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors ¹³  up from the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 12:18

12:18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the Lord and Samuel.

1 Samuel 15:1

Saul Is Rejected as King

15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. ¹⁴ 

1 Samuel 24:13

24:13 It’s like the old proverb says: ‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ¹⁵  “He is really hated ¹⁶  among his own people in ¹⁷  Israel! From now on ¹⁸  he will be my servant.”

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!”

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¹ tn Heb “proudly, proudly.” If MT is original, the repetition of the word is for emphasis, stressing the arrogance of those addressed. However, a few medieval Hebrew manuscripts and some other textual witnesses do not reflect the repetition, suggesting that the Hebrew text may be dittographic.

² tc The MT (Qere) reads “and by him actions are weighed.” The translation assumes that reading of the Qere וְלוֹ (vÿlo, “and by him”), which is supported by many medieval Hebrew mss, is correct, rather than the reading of the Kethib וְלוֹא (vÿlo’, “and not”).

³ 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.

⁴ tn Heb “no.”

⁵ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was heavy upon.”

⁶ tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁷ 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.”

⁸ tn Heb “men.”

⁹ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

¹⁰ tn Heb “mourned after”; NIV “mourned and sought after”; KJV, NRSV “lamented after”; NAB “turned to”; NCV “began to follow…again.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel.”

¹² tn Heb “responded.”

¹³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 8).

¹⁴ tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).

¹⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

¹⁷ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “permanently.”