1 Samuel 3:10-11

3:10 Then the Lord came and stood nearby, calling as he had previously done, “Samuel! Samuel!” Samuel replied, “Speak, for your servant is listening!” 3:11 The Lord said to Samuel, “Look! I am about to do something in Israel; 1  when anyone hears about it, both of his ears will tingle.

1 Samuel 4:1

4:1 Samuel revealed the word of the Lord 2  to all Israel.

The Ark of the Covenant is Lost to the Philistines

Then the Israelites went out to fight the Philistines. 3  They camped at Ebenezer, 4  and the Philistines camped at Aphek.

1 Samuel 15:13

15:13 When Samuel came to him, 5  Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”

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 6  king.”

1 Samuel 15:26

15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. 7  When he arrived in Bethlehem, 8  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They 9  said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 17:30

17:30 Then he turned from those who were nearby to someone else and asked the same question, 10  but they 11  gave him the same answer as before.

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 25:30

25:30 The Lord will do for my lord everything that he promised you, 14  and he will make 15  you a leader over Israel.

1 Samuel 28:17

28:17 The Lord has done exactly as I prophesied! 16  The Lord has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David!

1 tn The Hebrew text adds “so that” here, formally connecting this clause with the next.

1 tn Heb “and the word of Samuel was.” The present translation understands Samuel to be the speaker of the divine word (“Samuel” is a subjective genitive in this case), although the statement could mean that he was the recipient of the divine word (“Samuel” is an objective genitive in this case) who in turn reported it to Israel.

2 tn Heb “and Israel went out to meet the Philistines for battle.”

3 tn Heb “the stone, the help.” The second noun is in apposition to the first one and apparently is the name by which the stone was known. Contrast the expression used in 5:1 and 7:12, where the first word lacks the definite article, unlike 4:1.

1 tn Heb “to Saul.”

1 tn Or “from [being].”

1 tn Heb “said.”

2 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

3 tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

1 tn Heb “and spoke according to this word.”

2 tn Heb “the people.”

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

2 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself.

1 tn Heb “according to all which he spoke, the good concerning you.”

2 tn Heb “appoint.”

1 tn Heb “just as he said by my hand.”