1 Samuel 1:8

1:8 Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? ¹  Am I not better to you than ten ²  sons?”

1 Samuel 9:19

9:19 Samuel replied to Saul, “I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking. ³ 

1 Samuel 12:20

12:20 Then Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed sinned. ⁴  However, don’t turn aside from the Lord. Serve the Lord with all your heart.

1 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ⁵  for himself a man who is loyal to him ⁶  and the Lord has appointed ⁷  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 16:7

16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by ⁸  his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. ⁹  People look on the outward appearance, ¹⁰  but the Lord looks at the heart.”

¹ tn Heb “why is your heart displeased?”

² sn Like the number seven, the number ten is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number (see, for example, Dan 1:20, Zech 8:23).

³ tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”

⁵ tn Heb “you have done all this evil.”

⁷ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

⁸ tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

⁹ tn Heb “commanded.”

⁹ tn Heb “don’t look toward.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “for not that which the man sees.” The translation follows the LXX, which reads, “for not as man sees does God see.” The MT has suffered from homoioteleuton or homoioarcton. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 274.

¹¹ tn Heb “to the eyes.”