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 13:3

13:3 Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost ³  that was at Geba and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul alerted ⁴  all the land saying, “Let the Hebrews pay attention!”

1 Samuel 15:18

15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign ⁵  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you ⁶  have destroyed them.’

1 Samuel 17:27

17:27 The soldiers ⁷  told him what had been promised, saying, ⁸  “This is what will be done for the man who can strike him down.”

1 Samuel 19:15

19:15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”

1 Samuel 25:5

25:5 he ⁹  sent ten servants, ¹⁰  saying to them, ¹¹  “Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name. ¹² 

1 Samuel 30:20

30:20 David took all the flocks and herds and drove them in front of the rest of the animals. People were saying, “This is David’s plunder!”

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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 tn Or perhaps “struck down the Philistine official.” See the note at 1 Sam 10:5. Cf. TEV “killed the Philistine commander.”

⁴ tn Heb “blew the ram’s horn in.”

⁵ tn Heb “journey.”

⁶ tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).

⁷ tn Heb “people.”

⁸ tn Heb “according to this word, saying.”

⁹ tn Heb “David”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun has been used in the translation.

¹⁰ tn Or “young men.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and David said to the young men.”

¹² tn Heb “and inquire concerning him in my name in regard to peace.”