1 Samuel 1:22

1:22 but Hannah did not go up with them. ¹  Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

1 Samuel 2:11

2:11 Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of ²  Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 2:13

2:13 Now the priests would always treat the people in the following way: ³  Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, while the meat was boiling, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork ⁴  in his hand.

1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ⁵  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. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 3:1

The Call of Samuel

3:1 Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision. ⁷  Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.

1 Samuel 4:21

4:21 She named the boy Ichabod, ⁸  saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

1 Samuel 9:5

9:5 When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come on, let’s head back before my father quits worrying about the donkeys and becomes anxious about us!”

1 Samuel 9:10

9:10 So Saul said to his servant, “That’s a good idea! ⁹  Come on. Let’s go.” So they went to the town where the man of God was.

1 Samuel 9:22

9:22 Then Samuel brought ¹⁰  Saul and his servant into the room and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited. There were about thirty people present.

1 Samuel 10:14

10:14 Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” Saul ¹¹  replied, “To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, ¹²  we went to Samuel.”

1 Samuel 17:42

17:42 When the Philistine looked carefully at David, he despised him, for he was only a ruddy and handsome boy.

1 Samuel 17:58

17:58 Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David replied, “I am the son of your servant Jesse in Bethlehem.” ¹³ 

1 Samuel 20:40

20:40 Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the servant who was with him. He said to him, “Go, take these things back to the city.”

¹ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive here. The words “with them” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “with [or “before”] the face of.”

³ tn Heb “the habit of the priests with the people [was this].”

⁴ sn The Hebrew word occurs only twice in the OT, here and again in v. 14. Its exact meaning is not entirely clear, although from the context it appears to be a sacrificial tool used for retrieving things from boiling water.

⁴ tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

⁵ tn 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.”

⁶ tn Heb “before Eli.”

⁷ sn The name Ichabod (אִי־כָבוֹד) may mean, “Where is the glory?”

⁸ tn Heb “your word is good.”

⁹ tn Heb “took and brought.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “And we saw that they were not.”

¹¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.