1 Samuel 1:19

1:19 They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the Lord, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with¹ his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered² her.

1 Samuel 2:10

2:10 The Lord shatters³ his adversaries;⁴

he thunders against them from⁵ the heavens.

The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth.

He will strengthen⁶ his king

and exalt the power⁷ of his anointed one.”⁸

1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they⁹ treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 2:21

2:21 So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord’s sanctuary.¹⁰

1 Samuel 3:1

The Call of Samuel

3:1 Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision.¹¹ Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.

1 Samuel 7:9

7:9 So Samuel took a nursing lamb¹² and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Samuel cried out to the Lord on Israel’s behalf, and the Lord answered him.

1 Samuel 12:7

12:7 Now take your positions, so I may confront you¹³ before the Lord regarding all the Lord’s just actions toward you and your ancestors.¹⁴

1 Samuel 12:22

12:22 The Lord will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation.¹⁵ The Lord was pleased to make you his own people.

1 Samuel 15:1

Saul Is Rejected as King

15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says.¹⁶

1 Samuel 15:26

15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”

1 Samuel 23:11

23:11 Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, please inform your servant!”

Then the Lord said, “He will come down.”

1 Samuel 26:10

26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

1 Samuel 26:23

26:23 The Lord rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty.¹⁷ Even though today the Lord delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the Lord’s chosen one.

1 Samuel 28:17

28:17 The Lord has done exactly as I prophesied!¹⁸ The Lord has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David!

¹tn Heb “Elkanah knew his wife.” The Hebrew expression is a euphemism for sexual relations.

²sn The Lord “remembered” her in the sense of granting her earlier request for a child. The Hebrew verb is often used in the OT for considering the needs or desires of people with favor and kindness.

³tn The imperfect verbal forms in this line and in the next two lines are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.

⁴tc The present translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate in reading the plural (“his adversaries,” similarly many other English versions) rather than the singular (“his adversary”) of the Kethib.

⁵tn The Hebrew preposition here has the sense of “from within.”

⁶tn The imperfect verbal forms in this and the next line are understood as indicating what is anticipated and translated with the future tense, because at the time of Hannah’s prayer Israel did not yet have a king.

⁷tn Heb “the horn,” here a metaphor for power or strength. Cf. NCV “make his appointed king strong”; NLT “increases the might of his anointed one.”

⁸tc The LXX greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23-24.

⁵tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

⁷tn Heb “with the Lord.” Cf. NAB, TEV “in the service of the Lord”; NIV, NRSV, NLT “in the presence of the Lord”; CEV “at the Lord’s house in Shiloh.”

⁹tn Heb “before Eli.”

¹¹tn Heb “a lamb of milk”; NAB “an unweaned lamb”; NIV “a suckling lamb”; NCV “a baby lamb.”

¹³tn Heb “and I will enter into judgment with you” (NRSV similar); NAB “and I shall arraign you.”

¹⁴tn Heb “all the just actions which he has done with you and with your fathers.”

¹⁵tn Heb “on account of his great name.”

¹⁷tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).

¹⁹tn Heb “and the Lord returns to the man his righteousness and his faithfulness.”

²¹tn Heb “just as he said by my hand.”