1 Samuel 2:8

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.

1 Samuel 6:9

6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

1 Samuel 9:4

9:4 So Saul 4  crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.

1 Samuel 9:16

9:16 “At this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must consecrate 5  him as a leader over my people Israel. He will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked with favor on my people. Their cry has reached me!”

1 Samuel 10:1

Samuel Anoints Saul

10:1 Then Samuel took a small container of olive oil and poured it on Saul’s 6  head. Samuel 7  kissed him and said, “The Lord has chosen you 8  to lead his people Israel! You will rule over the Lord’s people and you will deliver them from the power of the enemies who surround them. This will be your sign that the Lord has chosen 9  you as leader over his inheritance. 10 

1 Samuel 13:2

13:2 Saul selected for himself three thousand men from Israel. Two thousand of these were with Saul at Micmash and in the hill country of Bethel; 11  the remaining thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. 12  He sent all the rest of the people back home. 13 

1 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out 14  for himself a man who is loyal to him 15  and the Lord has appointed 16  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 25:13

25:13 Then David instructed his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers 17  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs 18  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

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 Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Heb “anoint.”

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

7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Samuel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

8 tn Heb “Is it not that the Lord has anointed you?” The question draws attention to the fact and is a rhetorical way of affirming the Lord’s choice of Saul. The translation reflects the rhetorical force of the question.

9 tn That is, “anointed.”

10 tc The MT reads simply “Is it not that the Lord has anointed you over his inheritance for a leader?” The translation follows the LXX. The MT apparently suffers from parablepsis, whereby a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the expression “the Lord has anointed you” to the second occurrence of this expression at the end of v. 1. This mistake caused the accidental omission of the intervening material in the LXX, which appears to preserve the original Hebrew text here.

11 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

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

13 tn Heb “each one to his tents.”

14 tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

15 tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

16 tn Heb “commanded.”

17 tn Heb “skins.”

18 sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.