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 3:18

3:18 So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli ²  said, “The Lord will do what he pleases.” ³ 

1 Samuel 10:22

10:22 So they inquired again of the Lord, “Has the man arrived here yet?” The Lord said, “He has hidden himself among the equipment.” ⁴ 

1 Samuel 16:12

16:12 So Jesse had him brought in. ⁵  Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, “Go and anoint him. This is the one!”

1 Samuel 17:5

17:5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels. ⁶ 

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. ⁷  David escaped quickly ⁸  that night.

1 Samuel 27:2-3

27:2 So David left and crossed over to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath accompanied by his six hundred men. 27:3 David settled with Achish in Gath, along with his men and their families. ⁹  David had with him his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

1 Samuel 29:11

29:11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to return ¹⁰  to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

1 Samuel 30:9-10

30:9 So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there. ¹¹  30:10 David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.

1 Samuel 31:5

31:5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him.

[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).

[3:18]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

[10:22]  ³ tn Or “baggage” (so many English versions); KJV “stuff”; TEV “supplies.”

[16:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he sent and brought him.”

[17:5]  ⁵ sn Although the exact weight of Goliath’s defensive body armor is difficult to estimate in terms of modern equivalency, it was obviously quite heavy. Driver, following Kennedy, suggests a modern equivalent of about 220 pounds (100 kg); see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 139. Klein, taking the shekel to be equal to .403 ounces, arrives at a somewhat smaller weight of about 126 pounds (57 kg); see R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 175. But by any estimate it is clear that Goliath presented himself as a formidable foe indeed.

[19:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”

[19:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “fled and escaped.”

[27:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “a man and his house.”

[29:11]  ⁸ tc Heb “to go in the morning to return.” With the exception of Origen and the Lucianic recension, the Old Greek tradition lacks the phrase “in the morning.” The Syriac Peshitta also omits it.

[30:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “stood.” So also in v. 10.