1 Samuel 2:34

2:34 This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die!

1 Samuel 3:12

3:12 On that day I will carry out against Eli everything that I spoke about his house – from start to finish!

1 Samuel 4:12

Eli Dies

4:12 On that day a Benjaminite ran from the battle lines and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head.

1 Samuel 10:9

Saul Becomes King

10:9 As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed his inmost person. All these signs happened on that very day.

1 Samuel 11:13

11:13 But Saul said, “No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!”

1 Samuel 12:18

12:18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the Lord and Samuel.

1 Samuel 14:18

14:18 So Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring near the ephod,” for he was at that time wearing the ephod.

1 Samuel 14:37

14:37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.

1 Samuel 20:19

20:19 On the third day you should go down quickly 10  and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. 11  Stay near the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:26

20:26 However, Saul said nothing about it 12  that day, for he thought, 13  “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”

1 Samuel 21:7

21:7 (One of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s shepherds.)

1 Samuel 21:10

21:10 So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath.

1 Samuel 27:6

27:6 So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (For that reason Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this very day.)

tn Heb “and this to you [is] the sign which will come to both of your sons.”

tn Or “fulfill.”

tn Or perhaps, “the same day.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.f.

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

tn Heb “turned his shoulder.”

tn Heb “God turned for him another heart”; NAB, NRSV “gave him another heart”; NIV, NCV “changed Saul’s heart”; TEV “gave Saul a new nature”; CEV “made Saul feel like a different person.”

tc Heb “the ark of God.” It seems unlikely that Saul would call for the ark, which was several miles away in Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Sam 7:2). The LXX and an Old Latin ms have “ephod” here, a reading which harmonizes better with v. 3 and fits better with the verb “bring near” (see 1 Sam 23:9; 30:7) and with the expression “withdraw your hand” in v.19. This reading is followed in the present translation (cf. NAB, TEV, NLT).

tc Heb “for the ark of God was in that day, and the sons of Israel.” The translation follows the text of some Greek manuscripts. See the previous note.

tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).

tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.

tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.

tn The words “about it” are not present in the Hebrew text, although they are implied.

tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself.