1 Samuel 7:12

7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. ¹  He named it Ebenezer, ²  saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 11:12

Saul Is Established as King

11:12 Then the people said to Samuel, “Who were the ones asking, ‘Will Saul reign over us?’ Hand over those men so we may execute them!”

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ³  Israel along the way when Israel ⁴  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 20:26

20:26 However, Saul said nothing about it ⁵  that day, for he thought, ⁶  “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”

1 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers ⁷  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” ⁸ 

1 Samuel 23:10

23:10 Then David said, “O Lord God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is planning ⁹  to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.

¹ tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”

² sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.

³ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn The words “about it” are not present in the Hebrew text, although they are implied.

⁶ tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself.

⁷ tn Heb “servants.”

⁸ tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”

⁹ tn Heb “seeking.”