1 Samuel 2:5

2:5 Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food,

but the hungry no longer lack.

Even 1  the barren woman gives birth to seven, 2 

but the one with many children withers away. 3 

1 Samuel 2:16

2:16 If the individual said to him, “First let the fat be burned away, and then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say, “No! 4  Hand it over right now! If you don’t, I will take it forcibly!”

1 Samuel 10:25

10:25 Then Samuel talked to the people about how the kingship would work. 5  He wrote it all down on a scroll and set it before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away to their homes.

1 Samuel 14:16

14:16 Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin 6  looked on 7  as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another. 8 

1 Samuel 15:11

15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

1 Samuel 17:51

17:51 David ran and stood over the Philistine. He grabbed Goliath’s 9  sword, drew it from its sheath, 10  killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they ran away.

1 Samuel 19:18

19:18 Now David had run away and escaped. He went to Samuel in Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.

1 Samuel 20:5

20:5 David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. 11  You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.

1 Samuel 25:10

25:10 But Nabal responded to David’s servants, “Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!

1 Samuel 26:10

26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

1 tc Against BHS but with the MT, the preposition (עַד, ’ad) should be taken with what follows rather than with what precedes. For this sense of the preposition see Job 25:5.

2 sn The number seven is used here in an ideal sense. Elsewhere in the OT having seven children is evidence of fertility as a result of God’s blessing on the family. See, for example, Jer 15:9, Ruth 4:15.

3 tn Or “languishes.”

4 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss (“no”) rather than the Kethib and MT, which read “to him.”

5 tn Heb “the regulation of the kingship.” This probably refers to the regulations pertaining to kingship given to Moses (see Deut 17:14-20).

6 tn Heb “at Gibeah of Benjamin.” The words “in the territory” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

7 tn Heb “saw, and look!”

8 tn Heb “the crowd melted and went, even here.”

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

10 tc Most LXX mss lack the words “drew it from its sheath.”

11 tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.