1 Samuel 1:12

1:12 As she continued praying to ¹  the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth.

1 Samuel 2:28

2:28 I chose your ancestor ²  from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifice on my altar, to burn incense, and to bear the ephod before me. I gave to your ancestor’s house all the fire offerings made by the Israelites.

1 Samuel 6:18

6:18 The gold mice corresponded in number to all the Philistine cities of the five leaders, from the fortified cities to hamlet villages, to greater Abel, ³  where they positioned the ark of the Lord until this very day in the field of Joshua who was from Beth Shemesh.

1 Samuel 11:11

11:11 The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them ⁴  down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.

1 Samuel 25:38

25:38 After about ten days the Lord struck Nabal down and he died.

1 Samuel 26:12

26:12 So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul’s head, and they got out of there. No one saw them or was aware of their presence or woke up. All of them were asleep, for the Lord had caused a deep sleep to fall on them.

1 Samuel 27:11

27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time ⁵  that he lived in the country of the Philistines.

[1:12]  ¹ tc Heb “before.” Many medieval Hebrew manuscripts read “to.”

[2:28]  ² tn Heb “him”; the referent (Eli’s ancestor, i.e., Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:18]  ³ tc A few Hebrew mss and the LXX read “villages; the large rock…[is witness] until this very day.”

[11:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “Ammon.” By metonymy the name “Ammon” is used collectively for the soldiers in the Ammonite army.

[27:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the days.”