1 Samuel 1:9

1:9 On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. ¹  (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair ²  by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.)

1 Samuel 1:22

1:22 but Hannah did not go up with them. ³  Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

1 Samuel 6:21

6:21 So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.”

1 Samuel 7:2

Further Conflict with the Philistines

7:2 It was quite a long time – some twenty years in all – that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people ⁴  of Israel longed for ⁵  the Lord.

1 Samuel 12:11

12:11 So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, ⁶  Barak, ⁷  Jephthah, and Samuel, ⁸  and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.

1 Samuel 14:2

14:2 Now Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree in Migron, on the outskirts of Gibeah. The army that was with him numbered about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 19:2

19:2 So Jonathan told David, “My father Saul is trying ⁹  to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find ¹⁰  a hiding place and stay in seclusion. ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 19:9

19:9 Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon ¹²  Saul. He was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre. ¹³ 

1 Samuel 20:19

20:19 On the third day ¹⁴  you should go down quickly ¹⁵  and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. ¹⁶  Stay near the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 22:5

22:5 Then Gad the prophet said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Go to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

1 Samuel 22:23

22:23 Stay with me. Don’t be afraid! Whoever ¹⁷  seeks my life is seeking your life as well. You are secure with me.”

1 Samuel 23:25

23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ¹⁸  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

1 Samuel 27:3

27:3 David settled with Achish in Gath, along with his men and their families. ¹⁹  David had with him his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

1 Samuel 28:23

28:23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged ²⁰  him to eat, so he gave in. ²¹  He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.

1 Samuel 30:24

30:24 Who will listen to you in this matter? The portion of the one who went down into the battle will be the same as the portion of the one who remained with the equipment! Let their portions be the same!”

[1:9]  ¹ tc The LXX adds “and stood before the Lord,” but this is probably a textual expansion due to the terseness of the statement in the Hebrew text.

[1:9]  ² tn Or perhaps, “on his throne.” See Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.

[1:22]  ³ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive here. The words “with them” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

[7:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “mourned after”; NIV “mourned and sought after”; KJV, NRSV “lamented after”; NAB “turned to”; NCV “began to follow…again.”

[12:11]  ⁷ sn Jerub-Baal (יְרֻבַּעַל) is also known as Gideon (see Judg 6:32). The Book of Judges uses both names for him.

[12:11]  ⁸ tc The MT has “Bedan” (בְּדָן) here (cf. KJV, NASB, CEV). But a deliverer by this name is not elsewhere mentioned in the OT. The translation follows the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “Barak.”

[12:11]  ⁹ tc In the ancient versions there is some confusion with regard to these names, both with regard to the particular names selected for mention and with regard to the order in which they are listed. For example, the LXX has “Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel.” But the Targum has “Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, and Samuel,” while the Syriac Peshitta has “Deborah, Barak, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson.”

[19:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “seeking.”

[19:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stay in.”

[19:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and hide yourself.”

[19:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[was] to.”

[19:9]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”

[20:19]  ¹³ tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).

[20:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.

[20:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.

[22:23]  ¹⁵ tn Or “the one who.” This may refer specifically to Saul, in which case David acknowledges that Abiathar’s life is endangered because of his allegiance to David. The translation assumes that the statement is more generalized, meaning that any enemy of Abiathar is an enemy of David. In other words, David promises that he will protect Abiathar with his very own life.

[23:25]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to search.”

[27:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “a man and his house.”

[28:23]  ²¹ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וַיִּפְצְרוּ (vayyiftseru, “and they pressed”; from the root פצר, psr) rather than the MT’s וַיִּפְרְצוּ (vayyifretsu, “and they broke forth”; from the root פרצ, prs).

[28:23]  ²² tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”