1 Samuel 1:9

1:9 On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. ¹  (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair ²  by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.)

1 Samuel 1:15

1:15 But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is, ³  my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. ⁴  I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to ⁵  the Lord.

1 Samuel 30:12

30:12 They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, ⁶  for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ⁷  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ⁸  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

¹ tc The LXX adds “and stood before the Lord,” but this is probably a textual expansion due to the terseness of the statement in the Hebrew text.

² tn Or perhaps, “on his throne.” See Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.

³ tn Heb “No.”

⁴ tn Heb “I am a woman difficult of spirit.” The LXX has “for whom the day is difficult,” apparently mistaking the Hebrew word for “spirit” רוּחַ (ruakh) to be the word for “day” יוֹם (yom).

⁵ tn Heb “before.”

⁵ tn Heb “his spirit returned to him.”

⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”