1 Samuel 1:6

1:6 Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, ¹  for the Lord had not enabled her to have children.

1 Samuel 2:6

2:6 The Lord both kills and gives life;

he brings down to the grave ²  and raises up.

1 Samuel 3:20

3:20 All Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba realized that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord.

1 Samuel 20:23

20:23 With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!” ³ 

[1:6]  ¹ tn Heb “and her rival wife grieved her, even [with] grief so as to worry her.”

[2:6]  ² tn Heb “Sheol”; NAB “the nether world”; CEV “the world of the dead.”

[20:23]  ³ tc Heb “the Lord [is] between me and between you forever.” The translation assumes that the original text read עֵד עַד־עוֹלָם (’ed ’ad-’olam), “a witness forever,” with the noun “a witness” accidentally falling out of the text by haplography. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 338.