1 Samuel 10:7

10:7 “When these signs have taken place, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God will be with you. ¹ 

1 Samuel 10:1

Samuel Anoints Saul

10:1 Then Samuel took a small container of olive oil and poured it on Saul’s ²  head. Samuel ³  kissed him and said, “The Lord has chosen you ⁴  to lead his people Israel! You will rule over the Lord’s people and you will deliver them from the power of the enemies who surround them. This will be your sign that the Lord has chosen ⁵  you as leader over his inheritance. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 2:27

The Lord Judges the House of Eli

2:27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Did I not plainly ⁷  reveal myself to your ancestor’s ⁸  house when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh?

[10:7]  ¹ sn In light of Saul’s commission to be Israel’s deliverer (see v. 1), it is likely that some type of military action against the Philistines (see v.5) is implied.

[10:1]  ² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:1]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Samuel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “Is it not that the Lord has anointed you?” The question draws attention to the fact and is a rhetorical way of affirming the Lord’s choice of Saul. The translation reflects the rhetorical force of the question.

[10:1]  ⁵ tn That is, “anointed.”

[10:1]  ⁶ tc The MT reads simply “Is it not that the Lord has anointed you over his inheritance for a leader?” The translation follows the LXX. The MT apparently suffers from parablepsis, whereby a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the expression “the Lord has anointed you” to the second occurrence of this expression at the end of v. 1. This mistake caused the accidental omission of the intervening material in the LXX, which appears to preserve the original Hebrew text here.

[2:27]  ⁷ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[2:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “to your father’s” (also in vv. 28, 30).