1 Samuel 1:4

1:4 Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.

1 Samuel 18:7

18:7 The women who were playing the music sang,

“Saul has struck down his thousands,

but David his tens of thousands!”

1 Samuel 25:43-44

25:43 David had also married ¹  Ahinoam from Jezreel; the two of them became his wives. 25:44 (Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.)

1 Samuel 28:11

28:11 The woman replied, “Who is it that I should bring up for you?” He said, “Bring up for me Samuel.”

1 Samuel 28:24

28:24 Now the woman ²  had a well-fed calf ³  at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

1 Samuel 30:3

30:3 When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned. ⁴  Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

1 Samuel 30:18

30:18 David retrieved everything the Amalekites had taken; he ⁵  also rescued his two wives.

[25:43]  ¹ tn Heb “taken.”

[28:24]  ¹ sn Masoretic mss of the Hebrew Bible mark this word as the half-way point in the book of Samuel, treating 1 and 2 Samuel as a single book. Similar notations are found at the midway point for all of the books of the Hebrew Bible.

[28:24]  ² tn Heb “a calf of the stall.”

[30:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and David and his men came to the city, and look, it was burned with fire.”

[30:18]  ¹ tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“he”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.