1 Samuel 12:16

12:16 “So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.

1 Samuel 18:20

18:20 Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it ¹  pleased him.

1 Samuel 20:39

20:39 (Now the servant did not understand any of this. Only Jonathan and David knew what was going on.) ² 

1 Samuel 3:17

3:17 Eli ³  said, “What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely ⁴  if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”

1 Samuel 4:16

4:16 The man said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli ⁵  asked, “How did things go, my son?”

1 Samuel 8:6

8:6 But this request displeased Samuel, for ⁶  they said, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord.

1 Samuel 18:8

18:8 This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought, ⁷  “They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?”

1 Samuel 18:26

18:26 So his servants told David these things and David agreed ⁸  to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired ⁹ 

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 21:2

21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ ¹³  I have told my soldiers ¹⁴  to wait at a certain place. ¹⁵ 

1 Samuel 24:6

24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, ¹⁶  by extending my hand against him. After all, ¹⁷  he is the Lord’s chosen one.” ¹⁸ 

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ¹⁹  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ²⁰  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 ²¹  and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the Lord has done this thing to you today.

[18:20]  ¹ tn Heb “the matter.”

[20:39]  ¹ tn Heb “knew the matter.”

[3:17]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:17]  ² tn Heb “So God will do to you and thus he will add.” The verbal forms in this pronouncement are imperfects, not jussives, but the statement has the force of a curse or warning. One could translate, “May God do to you and thus may he add.”

[4:16]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:6]  ¹ tn Heb “when.”

[18:8]  ¹ tn Heb “said.” So also in vv. 11, 17.

[18:26]  ¹ tn Heb “and it was acceptable in the eyes of David.”

[18:26]  ² tn Heb “the days were not fulfilled.”

[20:2]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

[21:2]  ¹ tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”

[21:2]  ² tn Heb “servants.”

[21:2]  ³ tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.

[24:6]  ¹ tn Heb “anointed.”

[24:6]  ² tn Or “for.”

[24:6]  ³ tn Heb “anointed.”

[26:16]  ¹ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ² tn Heb “you are sons of death.”

[28:18]  ¹ tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord.”