1 Samuel 15:27

15:27 When Samuel turned to leave, Saul ¹  grabbed the edge of his robe and it tore.

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ²  Israel along the way when Israel ³  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 2:8

2:8 He lifts the weak ⁴  from the dust;

he raises ⁵  the poor from the ash heap

to seat them with princes

and to bestow on them an honored position. ⁶ 

The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord,

and he has placed the world on them.

1 Samuel 2:13-14

2:13 Now the priests would always treat the people in the following way: ⁷  Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, while the meat was boiling, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork ⁸  in his hand. 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 ⁹  when they came there to Shiloh.

¹ tn Heb “he,” but Saul is clearly the referent. A Qumran ms and the LXX include the name “Saul” here.

² tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Or “lowly”; Heb “insignificant.”

⁵ tn The imperfect verbal form, which is parallel to the participle in the preceding line, is best understood here as indicating what typically happens.

⁶ tn Heb “a seat of honor.”

⁷ tn Heb “the habit of the priests with the people [was this].”

⁸ sn The Hebrew word occurs only twice in the OT, here and again in v. 14. Its exact meaning is not entirely clear, although from the context it appears to be a sacrificial tool used for retrieving things from boiling water.

⁹ tn Heb “to all Israel.”