1 Samuel 2:6-7

2:6 The Lord both kills and gives life;

he brings down to the grave ¹  and raises up.

2:7 The Lord impoverishes and makes wealthy;

he humbles and he exalts.

1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ²  treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 7:4

7:4 So the Israelites ³  removed the Baals and images of Ashtoreth. They served only the Lord.

1 Samuel 9:15

9:15 Now the day before Saul arrived, the Lord had told ⁴  Samuel:

1 Samuel 14:35

14:35 Then Saul built an altar for the Lord; it was the first time he had built an altar for the Lord.

1 Samuel 16:14

David Appears before Saul

16:14 Now the Spirit of the Lord had turned away from Saul, and an evil spirit ⁵  from the Lord tormented him.

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¹ tn Heb “Sheol”; NAB “the nether world”; CEV “the world of the dead.”

² tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

³ tn Heb “the sons of Israel.”

⁴ tn Heb “uncovered the ear of.”

⁵ tn Or “an injurious spirit”; cf. NLT “a tormenting spirit.” The phrase need not refer to an evil, demonic spirit. The Hebrew word translated “evil” may refer to the character of the spirit or to its effect upon Saul. If the latter, another translation option might be “a mischief-making spirit.”