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 9:1-2

Samuel Meets with Saul

9:1 There was a Benjaminite man named Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin. He was a prominent person. 9:2 He had a son named Saul, a handsome young man. There was no one among the Israelites more handsome than he was; he stood head and shoulders above all the people.

1 Samuel 14:4

14:4 Now there was a steep cliff on each side of the pass through which Jonathan intended to go to reach the Philistine garrison. One cliff was named Bozez, the other Seneh.

1 Samuel 17:12

17:12 ² Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ³  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 17:23

17:23 As he was speaking with them, the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines. He spoke the way he usually did, ⁵  and David heard it.

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¹ sn The name Ichabod (אִי־כָבוֹד) may mean, “Where is the glory?”

² tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

⁴ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”

⁵ tn Heb “according to these words.”