1 Samuel 2:9

2:9 He watches over 1  his holy ones, 2 

but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness,

for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.

1 Samuel 12:18

12:18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the Lord and Samuel.

1 Samuel 14:11

14:11 When they 3  made themselves known to the Philistine garrison, the Philistines said, “Look! The Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they hid themselves.”

1 Samuel 18:13

18:13 Saul removed David 4  from his presence and made him a commanding officer. 5  David led the army out to battle and back. 6 

1 Samuel 19:16

19:16 When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.

1 Samuel 23:18

23:18 When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.

1 tn Heb “guards the feet of.” The expression means that God watches over and protects the godly in all of their activities and movements. The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.

2 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading the plural (“his holy ones”) rather than the singular (“his holy one”) of the Kethib.

3 tn Heb “the two of them.”

4 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Heb “an officer of a thousand.”

6 tn Heb “and he went out and came in before the people.” See v. 16.