1 Samuel 3:21
3:21 Then the Lord again appeared in Shiloh, for it was in Shiloh that the Lord had revealed himself to Samuel 1 through the word of the Lord. 2
1 Samuel 7:13
7:13 So the Philistines were defeated; they did not invade Israel again. The hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1 Samuel 10:22
10:22 So they inquired again of the Lord, “Has the man arrived here yet?” The Lord said, “He has hidden himself among the equipment.” 3
1 Samuel 19:8
19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly 4 and they ran away from him.
1 Samuel 20:17
20:17 Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life. 5
1 tc The LXX has a lengthy addition here: “And Samuel was acknowledged to be a prophet of the Lord in all Israel, from one end to the other. Eli was very old and, as for his sons, their way kept getting worse and worse before the Lord.” The Hebraic nature of the Greek syntax used here suggests that the LXX translator was accurately rendering a Hebrew variant and not simply expanding the text on his own initiative.
2 tn The chapter division at this point is inappropriate. 1 Sam 4:1a is best understood as the conclusion to chap. 3 rather than the beginning of chap. 4.
3 tn Or “baggage” (so many English versions); KJV “stuff”; TEV “supplies.”
4 tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”
5 tn Heb “for [with] the love of his [own] life he loved him.”