2:8 He lifts the weak 1 from the dust;
he raises 2 the poor from the ash heap
to seat them with princes
and to bestow on them an honored position. 3
The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord,
and he has placed the world on them.
4:4 So the army 4 sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave 12 them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s 13 army, 14 and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 19
16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. 20 Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, 21 for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.” 22
17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied! 17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God
18:17 25 Then Saul said to David, “Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior 26 for me and fight the battles of the Lord.” For Saul thought, “There’s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!”
20:3 Taking an oath, David again 28 said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact 29 that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 30 ‘Don’t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.’ But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!”
21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.
29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 36 to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become 37 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 38
29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you 39 serving 40 with me in the army. 41 I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion 42 of the leaders, you are not reliable. 43
29:8 But David said to Achish, “What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”
1 tn Or “lowly”; Heb “insignificant.”
2 tn The imperfect verbal form, which is parallel to the participle in the preceding line, is best understood here as indicating what typically happens.
3 tn Heb “a seat of honor.”
4 tn Or “people.”
5 tc Heb “only Dagon was left.” We should probably read the word גֵּו (gev, “back”) before Dagon, understanding it to have the sense of the similar word גְּוִיָּה (gÿviyyah, “body”). This variant is supported by the following evidence: The LXX has ἡ ῥάχις (Jh rJacis, “the back” or “trunk”); the Syriac Peshitta has wegusmeh (“and the body of”); the Targum has gupyeh (“the body of”); the Vulgate has truncus (“the trunk of,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT). On the strength of this evidence the present translation employs the phrase “Dagon’s body.”
6 tc A few Hebrew
7 tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).
8 tn Heb “yoke.”
9 tn Heb “like one man.”
10 tn Heb “anointed [one].”
11 tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”
13 map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.
14 tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”
15 tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).
16 tn Heb “a thing.”
17 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
18 tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”
19 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
20 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”
21 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.
22 tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”
23 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
24 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
25 tc Much of the
26 tn Heb “son of valor.”
27 tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”
28 tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”
29 tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
30 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.
31 tc The Hebrew text has simply “the
32 tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”
33 tn Heb “from you and here.”
34 tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”
35 tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.
36 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
37 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
38 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
39 tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.
40 tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.
41 tn Heb “camp.”
42 tn Heb “eyes.”
43 tn Heb “good.”