1 Samuel 1:3

1:3 Year after year 1  this man would go up from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh. It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the Lord’s priests.

1 Samuel 1:11

1:11 She made a vow saying, “O Lord of hosts, if you will look with compassion 2  on the suffering of your female servant, 3  remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child 4  to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.” 5 

1 Samuel 4:4

4:4 So the army 6  sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Samuel 17:45

17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied!

1 Samuel 17:55

17:55 7 Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”

1 Samuel 26:5

26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.

1 Samuel 28:1

The Witch of Endor

28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops 8  for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” 9 

1 tn Heb “from days to days.”

2 tn Heb “if looking you look.” The expression can refer, as here, to looking favorably upon another, in this case with compassion.

3 tn Heb “handmaid.” The use of this term (translated two more times in this verse and once each in vv. 16, 17 simply as “servant” for stylistic reasons) is an expression of humility.

4 tn Heb “seed of men.”

5 tn Heb “a razor will not go up upon his head.”

3 tn Or “people.”

4 tc Most LXX mss lack 17:55–18:5.

5 tn Heb “their camps.”

6 tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.