1 Samuel 1:23

1:23 So her husband Elkanah said to her, “Do what you think best. ¹  Stay until you have weaned him. May the Lord fulfill his promise.” ² 

So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

1 Samuel 12:9

12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave ³  them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s ⁴  army, ⁵  and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

1 Samuel 17:52

17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. ⁶  They chased the Philistines to the valley ⁷  and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

1 Samuel 24:8

24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 28:23

28:23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged ⁸  him to eat, so he gave in. ⁹  He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.

[1:23]  ¹ tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

[1:23]  ² tn Heb “establish his word.” This apparently refers to the promise inherent in Eli’s priestly blessing (see v. 17).

[12:9]  ³ tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”

[12:9]  ⁴ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[12:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”

[17:52]  ⁵ tn Heb “arose and cried out.”

[17:52]  ⁶ tc Most of the LXX ms tradition has here “Gath.”

[28:23]  ⁷ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וַיִּפְצְרוּ (vayyiftseru, “and they pressed”; from the root פצר, psr) rather than the MT’s וַיִּפְרְצוּ (vayyifretsu, “and they broke forth”; from the root פרצ, prs).

[28:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”