1 Samuel 2:14-15

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 ¹  when they came there to Shiloh.

2:15 Even before they burned the fat, the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice, “Hand over some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t take boiled meat from you, but only raw.” ² 

1 Samuel 9:7

9:7 So Saul said to his servant, “All right, ³  we can go. But what can we bring the man, since the food in our bags is used up? We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”

1 Samuel 14:43

14:43 So Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” Jonathan told him, “I used the end of the staff that was in my hand to taste a little honey. I must die!” ⁴ 

1 Samuel 15:23

15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as ⁵  king.”

1 Samuel 17:51

17:51 David ran and stood over the Philistine. He grabbed Goliath’s ⁶  sword, drew it from its sheath, ⁷  killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they ran away.

1 Samuel 25:21

25:21 Now David had been thinking, ⁸  “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

1 Samuel 28:3

28:3 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented over him and had buried him in Ramah, his hometown. ⁹  In the meantime Saul had removed the mediums ¹⁰  and magicians ¹¹  from the land.

¹ tn Heb “to all Israel.”

² tn Heb “living.”

³ tn Heb “look.”

⁴ tn Heb “Look, I, I will die.” Apparently Jonathan is acquiescing to his anticipated fate of death. However, the words may be taken as sarcastic (“Here I am about to die!”) or as a question, “Must I now die?” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).

⁵ tn Or “from [being].”

⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tc Most LXX mss lack the words “drew it from its sheath.”

⁷ tn Heb “said.”

⁸ tn Heb “in Ramah, even in his city.”

⁹ tn The Hebrew term translated “mediums” actually refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits (see 2 Kgs 21:6). In v. 7 the witch of Endor is called the owner of a ritual pit. See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401. Here the term refers by metonymy to the owner of such a pit (see H. A. Hoffner, TDOT 1:133).

¹⁰ sn See Isa 8:19 for another reference to magicians who attempted to conjure up underworld spirits.