1 Samuel 1:11

1:11 She made a vow saying, “O Lord of hosts, if you will look with compassion ¹  on the suffering of your female servant, ²  remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child ³  to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.” ⁴ 

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.” ⁵ 

1 Samuel 17:26

17:26 David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? ⁶  For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17:46

17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

1 Samuel 17:55

17:55 ⁷ Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”

1 Samuel 20:21

20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; ⁸  get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

1 Samuel 20:31

20:31 For as long as ⁹  this son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established. Now, send some men ¹⁰  and bring him to me. For he is as good as dead!” ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 25:29

25:29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag ¹²  of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!

1 Samuel 25:34

25:34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives – he who has prevented me from harming you – if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ¹³  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ¹⁴  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “if looking you look.” The expression can refer, as here, to looking favorably upon another, in this case with compassion.

[1:11]  ² tn Heb “handmaid.” The use of this term (translated two more times in this verse and once each in vv. 16, 17 simply as “servant” for stylistic reasons) is an expression of humility.

[1:11]  ³ tn Heb “seed of men.”

[1:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “a razor will not go up upon his head.”

[2:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “living.”

[17:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”

[17:55]  ¹³ tc Most LXX mss lack 17:55–18:5.

[20:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “from you and here.”

[20:31]  ²¹ tn Heb “all the days that.”

[20:31]  ²² tn The words “some men” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:31]  ²³ tn Heb “a son of death.”

[25:29]  ²⁵ tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”

[26:16]  ²⁹ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ³⁰ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”