1 Samuel 1:28

1:28 Now I dedicate him to the Lord. From this time on he is dedicated to the Lord.” Then they ¹  worshiped the Lord there.

1 Samuel 2:10

2:10 The Lord shatters ²  his adversaries; ³ 

he thunders against them from ⁴  the heavens.

The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth.

He will strengthen ⁵  his king

and exalt the power ⁶  of his anointed one.” ⁷ 

1 Samuel 3:10

3:10 Then the Lord came and stood nearby, calling as he had previously done, “Samuel! Samuel!” Samuel replied, “Speak, for your servant is listening!”

1 Samuel 3:18

3:18 So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli ⁸  said, “The Lord will do what he pleases.” ⁹ 

1 Samuel 7:17

7:17 Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged ¹⁰  Israel there and built an altar to the Lord there.

1 Samuel 8:6

8:6 But this request displeased Samuel, for ¹¹  they said, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord.

1 Samuel 8:22

8:22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say ¹²  and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”

1 Samuel 10:27

10:27 But some wicked men ¹³  said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. ¹⁴ 

1 Samuel 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king ¹⁵  is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” ¹⁶  They said, “He is witness!”

1 Samuel 16:12

16:12 So Jesse had him brought in. ¹⁷  Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, “Go and anoint him. This is the one!”

1 Samuel 19:10

19:10 Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. ¹⁸  David escaped quickly ¹⁹  that night.

1 Samuel 24:15

24:15 May the Lord be our judge and arbiter. May he see and arbitrate my case and deliver me from your hands!”

1 Samuel 24:22

24:22 David promised Saul this on oath. ²⁰  Then Saul went to his house, and David and his men went up to the stronghold.

1 Samuel 26:9

26:9 But David said to Abishai, “Don’t kill him! Who can extend his hand against the Lord’s chosen one ²¹  and remain guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:24

26:24 In the same way that I valued your life this day, ²²  may the Lord value my life ²³  and deliver me from all danger.”

1 Samuel 27:6

27:6 So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (For that reason Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this very day.)

[1:28]  ¹ tn Heb “he,” apparently referring to Samuel (but cf. CEV “Elkanah”). A few medieval manuscripts and some ancient versions take the verb as plural (cf. TEV, NLT).

[2:10]  ² tn The imperfect verbal forms in this line and in the next two lines are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.

[2:10]  ³ tc The present translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate in reading the plural (“his adversaries,” similarly many other English versions) rather than the singular (“his adversary”) of the Kethib.

[2:10]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew preposition here has the sense of “from within.”

[2:10]  ⁵ tn The imperfect verbal forms in this and the next line are understood as indicating what is anticipated and translated with the future tense, because at the time of Hannah’s prayer Israel did not yet have a king.

[2:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “the horn,” here a metaphor for power or strength. Cf. NCV “make his appointed king strong”; NLT “increases the might of his anointed one.”

[2:10]  ⁷ tc The LXX greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23-24.

[3:18]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[7:17]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps “settled disputes for” (cf. NLT “would hear cases there”; NRSV “administered justice there”).

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “when.”

[8:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “listen to their voice.”

[10:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12).

[10:27]  ⁸ tc In place of the MT (“and it was like one being silent”) the LXX has “after about a month,” taking the expression with the first part of the following chapter rather than with 10:27. Some Hebrew support for this reading appears in the corrected hand of a Qumran ms of Samuel, which has here “about a month.” However, it seems best to stay with the MT here even though it is difficult.

[12:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

[12:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”

[16:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he sent and brought him.”

[19:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”

[19:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fled and escaped.”

[24:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and David swore an oath to Saul.”

[26:9]  ¹² tn Heb “anointed” (also in vv. 11, 16, 23).

[26:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “your life was great this day in my eyes.”

[26:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “may my life be great in the eyes of the Lord.”