1 Samuel 15:16

15:16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Wait a minute! ¹  Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night.” Saul ²  said to him, “Tell me.”

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ³  Israel along the way when Israel ⁴  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 9:5-6

9:5 When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come on, let’s head back before my father quits worrying about the donkeys and becomes anxious about us!” 9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. ⁵  Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” ⁶ 

[15:16]  ¹ tn Or perhaps “be quiet.”

[15:16]  ² tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading the singular (“he said”) rather than the plural (“they said”) of the Kethib.

[15:2]  ³ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

[15:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:6]  ⁵ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

[9:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”