4:4 So the army 1 sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. 2 Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, 3 for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.” 4
26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.
31:7 When the men of Israel who were in the valley and across the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.
1 tn Or “people.”
2 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”
3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.
4 tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”
3 tn Heb “answered and said.”
4 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.
5 tn Heb “mighty man of valor and a man of war.”
6 tn Heb “discerning of word.”
7 tn Heb “a man of form.”