1 Samuel 2:5

2:5 Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food,

but the hungry no longer lack.

Even ¹  the barren woman gives birth to seven, ² 

but the one with many children withers away. ³ 

1 Samuel 2:15

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.” ⁴ 

1 Samuel 2:27

The Lord Judges the House of Eli

2:27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Did I not plainly ⁵  reveal myself to your ancestor’s ⁶  house when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh?

1 Samuel 4:17

4:17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled from ⁷  the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”

1 Samuel 6:7

6:7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

1 Samuel 9:9

9:9 (Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say, “Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.)

1 Samuel 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king ⁸  is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” ⁹  They said, “He is witness!”

1 Samuel 13:22

13:22 So on the day of the battle no sword or spear was to be found in the hand of anyone in the army that was with Saul and Jonathan. No one but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

1 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found ¹⁰  the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords. ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 14:41

14:41 Then Saul said, “O Lord God of Israel! If this sin has been committed by me or by my son Jonathan, then, O Lord God of Israel, respond with Urim. But if this sin has been committed by your people Israel, respond with Thummim.” ¹²  Then Jonathan and Saul were indicated by lot, while the army was exonerated. ¹³ 

1 Samuel 20:27

20:27 But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David’s place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why has Jesse’s son not come to the meal yesterday or today?”

1 Samuel 23:13

23:13 So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. ¹⁴  When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

1 Samuel 27:8-9

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach ¹⁵  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.) 27:9 When David would attack a district, ¹⁶  he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.

1 Samuel 28:7

28:7 So Saul instructed his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, ¹⁷  so that I may go to her and inquire of her.” His servants replied to him, “There is a woman who is a medium in Endor.”

¹ tc Against BHS but with the MT, the preposition (עַד, ’ad) should be taken with what follows rather than with what precedes. For this sense of the preposition see Job 25:5.

² sn The number seven is used here in an ideal sense. Elsewhere in the OT having seven children is evidence of fertility as a result of God’s blessing on the family. See, for example, Jer 15:9, Ruth 4:15.

³ tn Or “languishes.”

⁴ tn Heb “living.”

⁷ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

⁸ tn Heb “to your father’s” (also in vv. 28, 30).

¹⁰ tn Heb “before.”

¹³ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

¹⁴ tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and look, there was”

¹⁷ tn Heb “the sword of a man against his companion, a very great panic.”

¹⁹ tc Heb “to the Lord God of Israel: ‘Give what is perfect.’” The Hebrew textual tradition has accidentally omitted several words here. The present translation follows the LXX (as do several English versions, cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV). See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 247-48, and R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 132.

²⁰ tn Heb “went out.”

²² tn Heb “they went where they went.”

²⁵ tn Heb “from where you come.”

²⁸ tn Heb “the land.”

³¹ tn Heb “an owner of a ritual pit.” See the note at v. 3.