1 Samuel 14:25

14:25 Now the whole army ¹  entered the forest and there was honey on the ground. ² 

1 Samuel 23:27

23:27 But a messenger came to Saul saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”

1 Samuel 17:46

17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

1 Samuel 4:5

4:5 When the ark of the covenant of the Lord arrived at the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly ³  that the ground shook.

1 Samuel 13:3

13:3 Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost ⁴  that was at Geba and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul alerted ⁵  all the land saying, “Let the Hebrews pay attention!”

1 Samuel 14:15

14:15 Then fear overwhelmed ⁶  those who were in the camp, those who were in the field, all the army in the garrison, and the raiding bands. They trembled and the ground shook. This fear was caused by God. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 14:29

14:29 Then Jonathan said, “My father has caused trouble for the land. See how my eyes gleamed ⁸  when I tasted just a little of this honey.

1 Samuel 27:9

27:9 When David would attack a district, ⁹  he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.

1 Samuel 28:13

28:13 The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What have you seen?” The woman replied to Saul, “I have seen one like a god ¹⁰  coming up from the ground!”

1 Samuel 6:5

6:5 You should make images of the sores and images of the mice ¹¹  that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land. ¹² 

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 27:8

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach ¹³  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

1 Samuel 28:9

28:9 But the woman said to him, “Look, you are aware of what Saul has done; he has removed ¹⁴  the mediums and magicians ¹⁵  from the land! Why are you trapping me ¹⁶  so you can put me to death?”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ¹⁷  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ¹⁸  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

[14:25]  ¹ tn Heb “all the land.”

[14:25]  ² tn Heb “the surface of the field.”

[4:5]  ³ tn Heb “shouted [with] a great shout.”

[13:3]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps “struck down the Philistine official.” See the note at 1 Sam 10:5. Cf. TEV “killed the Philistine commander.”

[13:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “blew the ram’s horn in.”

[14:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “fell upon.”

[14:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “and it was by the fear of God.” The translation understands this to mean that God was the source or cause of the fear experienced by the Philistines. This seems to be the most straightforward reading of the sentence. It is possible, however, that the word “God” functions here simply to intensify the accompanying word “fear,” in which one might translate “a very great fear” (cf. NAB, NRSV). It is clear that on some occasions that the divine name carries such a superlative nuance. For examples see Joüon 2:525 §141.n.

[14:29]  ⁹ tc The LXX reads “saw.” See v. 27.

[27:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the land.”

[28:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “gods.” The modifying participle (translated “coming up”) is plural, suggesting that underworld spirits are the referent. But in the following verse Saul understands the plural word to refer to a singular being. The reference is to the spirit of Samuel.

[6:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your mice.” A Qumran ms has simply “the mice.”

[6:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.”

[27:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “from where you come.”

[28:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “how he has cut off.”

[28:9]  ²⁰ tn See the note at v. 3.

[28:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “my life.”

[30:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:16]  ²² tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”