1 Samuel 1:16

1:16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, ¹  for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

1 Samuel 2:23

2:23 He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these ²  people.

1 Samuel 17:30

17:30 Then he turned from those who were nearby to someone else and asked the same question, ³  but they ⁴  gave him the same answer as before.

[1:16]  ¹ tn Heb “daughter of worthlessness.”

[2:23]  ² tc For “these” the LXX has “of the Lord” (κυρίου, kuriou), perhaps through the influence of the final phrase of v. 24 (“the people of the Lord”). Somewhat less likely is the view that the MT reading is due to a distorted dittography of the first word of v. 24. The Vulgate lacks the word.

[17:30]  ³ tn Heb “and spoke according to this word.”

[17:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “the people.”