1 Samuel 3:3

3:3 and the lamp of God had not yet been extinguished. Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord as well; the ark of God was also there.

1 Samuel 4:17

4:17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled from the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”

1 Samuel 5:9

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city with sores.

1 Samuel 9:20

9:20 Don’t be concerned about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?”

1 Samuel 9:22

9:22 Then Samuel brought Saul and his servant into the room and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited. There were about thirty people present.

1 Samuel 10:16

10:16 Saul said to his uncle, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But Saul did not tell him what Samuel had said about the matter of kingship.

1 Samuel 17:33-34

17:33 But Saul replied to David, “You aren’t able to go against this Philistine and fight him! You’re just a boy! He has been a warrior from his youth!”

17:34 David replied to Saul, “Your servant has been a shepherd for his father’s flock. Whenever a lion or bear would come and carry off a sheep from the flock,

1 Samuel 25:17

25:17 Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. He is such a wicked person 10  that no one tells him anything!”

1 Samuel 25:21

25:21 Now David had been thinking, 11  “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

1 Samuel 27:8

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach 12  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)


tn Heb “before.”

tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”

tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”

tn Heb “took and brought.”

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

tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”

10 tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”

11 tn Heb “said.”

12 tn Heb “from where you come.”