18:20 Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it 1 pleased him.
3:1 Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision. 3 Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.
3:2 Eli’s eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,
8:5 She said, “If the king is so inclined and if I have met with his approval and if the matter is agreeable to the king and if I am attractive to him, let an edict be written rescinding those recorded intentions of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, 7 which he wrote in order to destroy the Jews who are throughout all the king’s provinces.
1 tn Heb “the matter.”
2 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “before Eli.”
4 tn Heb “people.”
5 tn Heb “lifted up their voice and wept.”
6 tn Heb “until there was no longer in them strength to weep.”
5 tc The LXX does not include the expression “the Agagite.”