1 Samuel 2:30

2:30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say ¹  that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve ²  me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! ³  For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!

1 Samuel 4:3

4:3 When the army ⁴  came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by ⁵  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 us ⁶  from the hand of our enemies.

1 Samuel 9:27

9:27 While they were going down to the edge of town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” So he did. ⁷  Samuel then said, ⁸  “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”

1 Samuel 15:9

15:9 However, Saul and the army spared Agag, along with the best of the flock, the cattle, the fatlings, ⁹  and the lambs, as well as everything else that was of value. ¹⁰  They were not willing to slaughter them. But they did slaughter everything that was despised ¹¹  and worthless.

1 Samuel 17:28

17:28 When David’s ¹²  oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry ¹³  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! ¹⁴  You have come down here to watch the battle!”

1 Samuel 22:17

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers ¹⁵  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ¹⁶  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ¹⁷  the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 27:11

27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time ¹⁸  that he lived in the country of the Philistines.

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¹ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

² tn Heb “walk about before.”

³ tn Heb “may it be far removed from me.”

⁴ tn Or “people.”

⁵ tn Heb “before.”

⁶ tn 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.”

⁷ tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin ms, and the Syriac Peshitta.

⁸ tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

⁹ tn The Hebrew text is difficult here. We should probably read וְהַמַּשְׂמַנִּים (vÿhammasmannim, “the fat ones”) rather than the MT וְהַמִּשְׂנִים (vÿhammisnim, “the second ones”). However, if the MT is retained, the sense may be as the Jewish commentator Kimchi supposed: the second-born young, thought to be better than the firstlings. (For discussion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 123-24.)

¹⁰ tn Heb “good.”

¹¹ tc The MT has here the very odd form נְמִבְזָה (nÿmivzah), but this is apparently due to a scribal error. The translation follows instead the Niphal participle נִבְזָה (nivzah).

¹² tn Heb “his”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “the anger of Eliab became hot.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “the wickedness of your heart.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “runners.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “their hand is.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “all the days.”