1 Samuel 7:12
7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. 1 He named it Ebenezer, 2 saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”
1 Samuel 12:13
12:13 Now look! Here is the king you have chosen – the one that you asked for! Look, the Lord has given you a king!
1 Samuel 12:24
12:24 However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!
1 Samuel 14:29
14:29 Then Jonathan said, “My father has caused trouble for the land. See how my eyes gleamed 3 when I tasted just a little of this honey.
1 Samuel 16:10
16:10 Jesse presented seven of his sons to Samuel. 4 But Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen any of these.”
1 Samuel 20:26
20:26 However, Saul said nothing about it 5 that day, for he thought, 6 “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”
1 Samuel 23:10
23:10 Then David said, “O Lord God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is planning 7 to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.
1 Samuel 23:22
23:22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely 8 where he is 9 and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.
1 Samuel 24:14
24:14 Who has the king of Israel come out after? Who is it that you are pursuing? A dead dog? A single flea?
1 Samuel 25:27
25:27 Now let this present 10 that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow 11 my lord.
1 Samuel 25:32
25:32 Then David said to Abigail, “Praised 12 be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!
1 Samuel 25:40
25:40 So the servants of David went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, “David has sent us to you to bring you back to be his wife.”
1 Samuel 27:6
27:6 So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (For that reason Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this very day.)
1 Samuel 28:18
28:18 Since you did not obey the Lord 13 and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the Lord has done this thing to you today.
1 Samuel 29:5
29:5 Isn’t this David, of whom they sang as they danced, 14 ‘Saul has struck down his thousands,
but David his tens of thousands’?”
1 tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”
2 sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.
3 tc The LXX reads “saw.” See v. 27.
4 tn Heb “caused seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.” This could be taken as referring to seven sons in addition to the three mentioned before this, but 1 Sam 17:12 says Jesse had eight sons, not eleven. 1 Chr 2:13-15 lists only seven sons, including David. However, 1 Chr 27:18 mentions an additional son, named Elihu.
5 tn The words “about it” are not present in the Hebrew text, although they are implied.
6 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself.
7 tn Heb “seeking.”
8 tn Heb “know and see.” The expression is a hendiadys. See also v. 23.
9 tn Heb “his place where his foot is.”
10 tn Heb “blessing.”
11 tn Heb “are walking at the feet of.”
12 tn Heb “blessed” (also in vv. 33, 39).
13 tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord.”
14 tn Heb “in dances.”