1 Samuel 2:18

2:18 Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 14:25

14:25 Now the whole army ¹  entered the forest and there was honey on the ground. ² 

1 Samuel 15:7

15:7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to ³  Shur, which is next to Egypt.

1 Samuel 22:4

22:4 So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time ⁴  that David was in the stronghold.

1 Samuel 1:22

1:22 but Hannah did not go up with them. ⁵  Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

1 Samuel 2:11

2:11 Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of ⁶  Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ⁷  treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 20:15

20:15 Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ⁸  David and his men in the region of ⁹  the rocks of the mountain goats. ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 26:1

David Spares Saul’s Life Again

26:1 The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near ¹¹  Jeshimon?”

1 Samuel 26:3

26:3 Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon, but David was staying in the desert. When he realized that Saul had come to the desert to find ¹²  him,

1 Samuel 26:20

26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge ¹³  in the hill country.”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ¹⁴  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ¹⁵  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

¹ tn Heb “all the land.”

² tn Heb “the surface of the field.”

¹ tn Heb “[as] you enter.”

¹ tn Heb “all the days.”

¹ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive here. The words “with them” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn Heb “with [or “before”] the face of.”

¹ tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

¹ tn Heb “to search [for].”

² tn Heb “upon the face of.”

³ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

¹ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

¹ tn Heb “after.”

¹ tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.

¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”