1 Samuel 3:8

3:8 Then the Lord called Samuel a third time. So he got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me!” Eli then realized that it was the Lord who was calling the boy.

1 Samuel 6:8

6:8 Then take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way.

1 Samuel 10:25

10:25 Then Samuel talked to the people about how the kingship would work. ¹  He wrote it all down on a scroll and set it before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away to their homes.

1 Samuel 15:12

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where ²  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ³  and went down to Gilgal.” ⁴ 

1 Samuel 19:13

19:13 Then Michal took a household idol ⁵  and put it on the bed. She put a quilt ⁶  made of goat’s hair over its head ⁷  and then covered the idol with a garment.

1 Samuel 20:7

20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ ⁸  then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. ⁹ 

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¹ tn Heb “the regulation of the kingship.” This probably refers to the regulations pertaining to kingship given to Moses (see Deut 17:14-20).

² tn Heb “and look.”

³ tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

⁴ tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”

⁵ tn Heb “teraphim” (also a second time in this verse and once in v. 16). These were statues that represented various deities. According to 2 Kgs 23:24 they were prohibited during the time of Josiah’s reform movement in the seventh century. The idol Michal placed under the covers was of sufficient size to give the mistaken impression that David lay in the bed, thus facilitating his escape.

⁶ tn The exact meaning of the Hebrew word כָּבִיר (kavir) is uncertain; it is found in the Hebrew Bible only here and in v. 16. It probably refers to a quilt made of goat’s hair, perhaps used as a fly net while one slept. See HALOT 458 s.v. *כָּבִיר. Cf. KJV, TEV “pillow”; NLT “cushion”; NAB, NRSV “net.”

⁷ tn Heb “at the place of its head.”

⁸ tn Heb “good.”

⁹ tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”