1 Samuel 15:35

15:35 Until the day he ¹  died Samuel did not see Saul again. Samuel did, however, mourn for Saul, but the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 25:30

25:30 The Lord will do for my lord everything that he promised you, ²  and he will make ³  you a leader over Israel.

1 Samuel 25:37

25:37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, ⁴  his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 28:17

28:17 The Lord has done exactly as I prophesied! ⁶  The Lord has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David!

¹ tn That is, Samuel.

² tn Heb “according to all which he spoke, the good concerning you.”

³ tn Heb “appoint.”

³ tn Heb “when the wine had gone out from Nabal.”

⁴ tn Heb “and his heart died within him and he became a stone.” Cf. TEV, NLT “stroke”; CEV “heart attack.” For an alternative interpretation than that presented above, see Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, “The Law of the Heart: The Death of a Fool (1 Samuel 25),” JBL 120 (2001): 401-27, who argues that a medical diagnosis is not necessary here. Instead, the passage makes a connection between the heart and the law; Nabal dies for his lawlessness.

⁴ tn Heb “just as he said by my hand.”