1 Samuel 3:3

3:3 and the lamp of God had not yet been extinguished. Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord as well; the ark of God was also there.

1 Samuel 10:22

10:22 So they inquired again of the Lord, “Has the man arrived here yet?” The Lord said, “He has hidden himself among the equipment.” ¹ 

1 Samuel 13:8

13:8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. ²  But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. ³ 

1 Samuel 14:2

14:2 Now Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree in Migron, on the outskirts of Gibeah. The army that was with him numbered about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 18:26

18:26 So his servants told David these things and David agreed ⁴  to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired ⁵ 

1 Samuel 20:22

20:22 But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ ⁶  get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 20:37

20:37 When the servant came to the place where Jonathan had shot the arrow, Jonathan called out to ⁷  the servant, “Isn’t the arrow further beyond you?”

1 Samuel 23:3

23:3 But David’s men said to him, “We are afraid while we are still here in Judah! What will it be like if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

¹ tn Or “baggage” (so many English versions); KJV “stuff”; TEV “supplies.”

¹ tn This apparently refers to the instructions given by Samuel in 1 Sam 10:8. If so, several years had passed. On the relationship between chs. 10 and 13, see V. P. Long, The Art of Biblical History (FCI), 201-23.

² tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”

¹ tn Heb “and it was acceptable in the eyes of David.”

² tn Heb “the days were not fulfilled.”

¹ tn Heb “from you and onward.”

¹ tn Heb “called after” (also in v. 38).