1 Samuel 3:17

3:17 Eli 1  said, “What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely 2  if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”

1 Samuel 11:2-3

11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!”

11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.”

1 Samuel 12:15

12:15 But if you don’t obey 3  the Lord and rebel against what the Lord says, the hand of the Lord will be against both you and your king. 4 

1 Samuel 14:10

14:10 But if they say, ‘Come up against us,’ we will go up. For in that case the Lord has given them into our hand – it will be a sign to us.”

1 Samuel 14:39

14:39 For as surely as the Lord, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!” But no one from the army said anything. 5 

1 Samuel 19:11

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself 6  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

1 Samuel 20:6

20:6 If your father happens to miss me, you should say, ‘David urgently requested me to let him go 7  to his city Bethlehem, 8  for there is an annual sacrifice there for his entire family.’

1 Samuel 20:8

20:8 You must be loyal 9  to your servant, for you have made a covenant with your servant in the Lord’s name. 10  If I am guilty, 11  you yourself kill me! Why bother taking me to your father?”

1 Samuel 20:22

20:22 But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ 12  get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers 13  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” 14 

1 Samuel 23:3

23:3 But David’s men said to him, “We are afraid while we are still here in Judah! What will it be like if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

1 Samuel 23:23

23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. 15  Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him 16  among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 24:19

24:19 Now if a man finds his enemy, does he send him on his way in good shape? May the Lord repay you with good this day for what you have done to me.

1 Samuel 27:5

27:5 David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”

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

2 tn Heb “So God will do to you and thus he will add.” The verbal forms in this pronouncement are imperfects, not jussives, but the statement has the force of a curse or warning. One could translate, “May God do to you and thus may he add.”

3 tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”

4 tc The LXX reads “your king” rather than the MT’s “your fathers.” The latter makes little sense here. Some follow MT, but translate “as it was against your fathers.” See P. K. McCarter, 1 Samuel (AB), 212.

5 tn Heb “and there was no one answering from all the army.”

6 tn Heb “your life.”

7 tn Heb “to run.”

8 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

9 tn Heb “and you must do loyalty.”

10 tn Heb “for into a covenant of the Lord you have brought your servant with you.”

11 tn Heb “and if there is in me guilt.”

12 tn Heb “from you and onward.”

13 tn Heb “servants.”

14 tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”

15 tn Heb “established.”

16 tn Heb “I will search him out.”