1 Samuel 1:13

1:13 Now Hannah was speaking from her heart. Although her lips were moving, her voice was inaudible. Eli therefore thought she was drunk.

1 Samuel 1:16

1:16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, ¹  for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

1 Samuel 2:18

2:18 Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 5:1

The Ark Causes Trouble for the Philistines

5:1 Now the Philistines had captured the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

1 Samuel 8:2

8:2 The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second son was Abijah. They were judges in Beer Sheba.

1 Samuel 14:25

14:25 Now the whole army ²  entered the forest and there was honey on the ground. ³ 

1 Samuel 16:17

16:17 So Saul said to his servants, “Find ⁴  me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”

1 Samuel 18:12

18:12 So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.

1 Samuel 24:1

David Spares Saul’s Life

24:1 (24:2) When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, “Look, David is in the desert of En Gedi.”

1 Samuel 25:44

25:44 (Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.)

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ⁵  “He is really hated ⁶  among his own people in ⁷  Israel! From now on ⁸  he will be my servant.”

¹ tn Heb “daughter of worthlessness.”

¹ tn Heb “all the land.”

² tn Heb “the surface of the field.”

¹ tn Heb “see.”

¹ tn Heb “saying.”

² tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

³ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

⁴ tn Heb “permanently.”