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 2:14

2:14 He would jab it into the basin, kettle, caldron, or pot, and everything that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they used to do to all the Israelites ²  when they came there to Shiloh.

1 Samuel 2:28

2:28 I chose your ancestor ³  from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifice on my altar, to burn incense, and to bear the ephod before me. I gave to your ancestor’s house all the fire offerings made by the Israelites.

1 Samuel 14:3

14:3 Now Ahijah was carrying ⁴  an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 14:36

14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout ⁵  them until the break of day. ⁶  We won’t leave any of them alive!” ⁷  They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” ⁸  But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

1 Samuel 21:1-2

21:1 (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met ⁹  David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?” 21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ ¹⁰  I have told my soldiers ¹¹  to wait at a certain place. ¹² 

1 Samuel 21:4-6

21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers ¹³  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” ¹⁴  21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ ¹⁵  equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”

21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

¹ tn Heb “from days to days.”

² tn Heb “to all Israel.”

³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Eli’s ancestor, i.e., Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).

⁵ tn Heb “plunder.”

⁶ tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”

⁷ tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”

⁸ tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.

⁶ tn Heb “trembled to meet.”

⁷ tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

⁸ tn Heb “servants.”

⁹ tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.

⁸ tn Heb “servants.”

⁹ tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”

⁹ tn Heb “servants’.”