1 Samuel 1:14

1:14 So he ¹  said to her, “How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!”

1 Samuel 1:16

1:16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, ²  for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

1 Samuel 12:16

12:16 “So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.

1 Samuel 16:17

16:17 So Saul said to his servants, “Find ³  me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”

1 Samuel 25:27

25:27 Now let this present ⁴  that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow ⁵  my lord.

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ⁶  “He is really hated ⁷  among his own people in ⁸  Israel! From now on ⁹  he will be my servant.”

¹ tn Heb “Eli.” The pronoun (“he”) has been used in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style.

² tn Heb “daughter of worthlessness.”

³ tn Heb “see.”

⁴ tn Heb “blessing.”

⁵ tn Heb “are walking at the feet of.”

⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

⁶ 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.

⁷ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

⁸ tn Heb “permanently.”