1 Samuel 4:21
4:21 She named the boy Ichabod, 1 saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
1 Samuel 5:7
5:7 When the people 2 of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel should not remain with us, for he has attacked 3 both us and our god Dagon!”
1 Samuel 10:11
10:11 When everyone who had known him previously saw him prophesying with the prophets, the people all asked one another, “What on earth has happened to the son of Kish? Does even Saul belong with the prophets?”
1 Samuel 10:24
10:24 Then Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? Indeed, there is no one like him among all the people!” All the people shouted out, “Long live the king!”
1 Samuel 11:5
11:5 Now Saul was walking behind the 4 oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, “What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?” So they told him about 5 the men of Jabesh.
1 Samuel 13:4
13:4 All Israel heard this message, 6 “Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel is repulsive 7 to the Philistines!” So the people were summoned to join 8 Saul at Gilgal.
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 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 9 he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left 10 and went down to Gilgal.” 11
1 Samuel 15:23
15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,
and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has rejected you as 12 king.”
1 Samuel 15:26
15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”
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 19:17
19:17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!” Michal replied to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away or else I will kill you!’” 13
1 Samuel 20:7
20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ 14 then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. 15
1 Samuel 20:15
20:15 Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth
1 Samuel 20:22
20:22 But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ 16 get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.
1 Samuel 20:27
20:27 But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David’s place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why has Jesse’s son not come to the meal yesterday or today?”
1 Samuel 23:11
23:11 Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, please inform your servant!” Then the Lord said, “He will come down.”
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. 17 He is such a wicked person 18 that no one tells him anything!”
1 Samuel 25:21
25:21 Now David had been thinking, 19 “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 25:31
25:31 Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt 20 for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, 21 please remember your servant.”
1 Samuel 26:8
26:8 Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me drive the spear 22 right through him into the ground with one swift jab! 23 A second jab won’t be necessary!”
1 Samuel 28:21
28:21 When the woman came to Saul and saw how terrified he was, she said to him, “Your servant has done what you asked. 24 I took my life into my own hands and did what you told me. 25
1 sn The name Ichabod (אִי־כָבוֹד) may mean, “Where is the glory?”
2 tn Heb “men.”
3 tn Heb “for his hand is severe upon.”
4 tn Or perhaps, “his oxen.” On this use of the definite article see Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.
5 tn Heb “the matters of.”
6 tn The words “this message” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
7 tn Heb “stinks.” The figurative language indicates that Israel had become repulsive to the Philistines.
8 tn Heb “were summoned after.”
9 tn Heb “and look.”
10 tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”
11 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.”
12 tn Or “from [being].”
13 tn Heb “Send me away! Why should I kill you?” The question has the force of a threat in this context. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 325, 26.
14 tn Heb “good.”
15 tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”
16 tn Heb “from you and onward.”
17 tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”
18 tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”
19 tn Heb “said.”
20 tn Heb “and this will not be for you for staggering and for stumbling of the heart of my lord.”
21 tn Heb “and the Lord will do well for my lord.”
22 tn Here “the spear” almost certainly refers to Saul’s own spear, which according to the previous verse was stuck into the ground beside him as he slept. This is reflected in a number of English versions: TEV, CEV “his own spear”; NLT “that spear.” Cf. NIV, NCV “my spear,” in which case Abishai refers to his own spear rather than Saul’s, but this is unlikely since (1) Abishai would probably not have carried a spear along since such a weapon would be unwieldy when sneaking into the enemy camp; and (2) this would not explain the mention of Saul’s own spear stuck in the ground beside him in the previous verse.
23 tn Heb “let me strike him with the spear and into the ground one time.”
24 tn Heb “listened to your voice.”
25 tn Heb “listened to your words that you spoke to me.”