1 Samuel 2:33

2:33 Any one of you that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause your 1  eyes to fail 2  and will cause you grief. 3  All of those born to your family 4  will die in the prime of life. 5 

1 Samuel 4:20

4:20 As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, “Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention. 6 

1 Samuel 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king 7  is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” 8  They said, “He is witness!”

1 Samuel 20:34

20:34 Jonathan got up from the table enraged. He did not eat any food on that second day of the new moon, for he was upset that his father had humiliated David. 9 

1 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers 10  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” 11 

1 tc The LXX, a Qumran ms, and a few old Latin mss have the third person pronominal suffix “his” here.

2 tn Heb “to cause your eyes to fail.” Elsewhere this verb, when used of eyes, refers to bloodshot eyes resulting from weeping, prolonged staring, or illness (see Lev 26:16; Pss 69:3; 119:82; Lam 2:11; 4:17).

3 tn Heb “and to cause your soul grief.”

4 tn Heb “and all the increase of your house.”

5 tc The text is difficult. The MT literally says “they will die [as] men.” Apparently the meaning is that they will be cut off in the prime of their life without reaching old age. The LXX and a Qumran ms, however, have the additional word “sword” (“they will die by the sword of men”). This is an easier reading (cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT), but that fact is not in favor of its originality.

6 tn Heb “and she did not set her heart.”

7 tn Heb “anointed [one].”

8 tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”

9 tn Heb “for he was upset concerning David for his father had humiliated him.” The referent of the pronoun “him” is not entirely clear, but the phrase “concerning David” suggests that it refers to David, rather than Jonathan.

10 tn Heb “servants.”

11 tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”