1 Samuel 1:8

1:8 Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? ¹  Am I not better to you than ten ²  sons?”

1 Samuel 1:11

1:11 She made a vow saying, “O Lord of hosts, if you will look with compassion ³  on the suffering of your female servant, ⁴  remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child ⁵  to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.” ⁶ 

1 Samuel 6:9

6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

1 Samuel 13:14

13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ⁷  for himself a man who is loyal to him ⁸  and the Lord has appointed ⁹  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan ¹⁰  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing ¹¹  large or small without making me aware of it. ¹²  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

1 Samuel 21:11

21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,

‘Saul struck down his thousands,

But David his tens of thousands’?”

1 Samuel 25:7

25:7 Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 26:15-16

26:15 David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? After all, who is like you in Israel? Why then haven’t you protected your lord the king? One of the soldiers came to kill your lord the king. 26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ¹³  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ¹⁴  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

1 Samuel 28:18

28:18 Since you did not obey the Lord ¹⁵  and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the Lord has done this thing to you today.

1 Samuel 28:20

28:20 Saul quickly fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words. He was completely drained of energy, ¹⁶  not having eaten anything ¹⁷  all that day and night.

1 Samuel 30:12

30:12 They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, ¹⁸  for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

[1:8]  ¹ tn Heb “why is your heart displeased?”

[1:8]  ² sn Like the number seven, the number ten is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number (see, for example, Dan 1:20, Zech 8:23).

[1:11]  ³ tn Heb “if looking you look.” The expression can refer, as here, to looking favorably upon another, in this case with compassion.

[1:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “handmaid.” The use of this term (translated two more times in this verse and once each in vv. 16, 17 simply as “servant” for stylistic reasons) is an expression of humility.

[1:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “seed of men.”

[1:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “a razor will not go up upon his head.”

[13:14]  ⁵ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

[13:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

[13:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “commanded.”

[20:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ⁸ tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading “he will not do,” rather than the Kethib of the MT (“do to him”).

[20:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

[26:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”

[28:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord.”

[28:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “also there was no strength in him.”

[28:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “food.”

[30:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “his spirit returned to him.”