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 17:12

17:12 ³ Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ⁴  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 30:19

30:19 There was nothing missing, whether small or great. He retrieved sons and daughters, the plunder, and everything else they had taken. ⁶  David brought everything back.

[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).

[17:12]  ³ tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

[17:12]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[17:12]  ⁵ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”

[30:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “there was nothing missing to them, from the small even unto the great, and unto sons and daughters, and from loot even unto all which they had taken for themselves.”