1:23 So her husband Elkanah said to her, “Do what you think best. 1 Stay until you have weaned him. May the Lord fulfill his promise.” 2
So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave 3 them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s 4 army, 5 and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. 6 They chased the Philistines to the valley 7 and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.
28:23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged 8 him to eat, so he gave in. 9 He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.
1 tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”
2 tn Heb “establish his word.” This apparently refers to the promise inherent in Eli’s priestly blessing (see v. 17).
3 tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”
4 map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.
5 tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”
5 tn Heb “arose and cried out.”
6 tc Most of the LXX
7 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew
8 tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”