1 Samuel 1:22

1:22 but Hannah did not go up with them. ¹  Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

1 Samuel 2:11

2:11 Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of ²  Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ³  treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 20:15

20:15 Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ⁴  David and his men in the region of ⁵  the rocks of the mountain goats. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 26:1

David Spares Saul’s Life Again

26:1 The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near ⁷  Jeshimon?”

[1:22]  ¹ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive here. The words “with them” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[2:11]  ² tn Heb “with [or “before”] the face of.”

[2:17]  ³ tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

[24:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ⁶ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

[26:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “upon the face of.”