1 Samuel 12:21
12:21 You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.
1
1 Samuel 24:17
24:17 He said to David, “You are more innocent
2 than I, for you have treated me well, even though I have tried to harm you!
1 Samuel 28:6
28:6 So Saul inquired of the
Lord, but the
Lord did not answer him – not by dreams nor by Urim
3 nor by the prophets.
1 Samuel 28:16
28:16 Samuel said, “Why are you asking me, now that the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy?
1 tn Or “useless” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “nothing”; NASB “futile”; TEV “are not real.”
2 tn Or “righteous” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “you are in the right”; NLT “are a better man than I am.”
3 sn See the note at 1 Sam 14:41.