1 Samuel 16:15

16:15 Then Saul’s servants said to him, “Look, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you!”

1 Samuel 16:23

16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone. ¹ 

1 Samuel 13:13-14

13:13 Then Samuel said to Saul, “You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed ²  the commandment that the Lord your God gave ³  you. Had you done that, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever! 13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ⁴  for himself a man who is loyal to him ⁵  and the Lord has appointed ⁶  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 15:23

15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as ⁷  king.”

1 Samuel 15:26

15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”

Jeremiah 6:30

6:30 They are regarded as ‘rejected silver’ ⁸ 

because the Lord rejects them.”

Jeremiah 14:11-12

Judgment for Believing the Misleading Lies of the False Prophets

14:11 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for good to come to these people! ⁹  14:12 Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. ¹⁰  Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.” ¹¹ 

Jeremiah 15:1

15:1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for ¹²  these people, I would not feel pity for them! ¹³  Get them away from me! Tell them to go away! ¹⁴ 

Jeremiah 15:1

15:1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for ¹⁵  these people, I would not feel pity for them! ¹⁶  Get them away from me! Tell them to go away! ¹⁷ 

Jeremiah 5:16

5:16 All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. ¹⁸ 

Their arrows will send you to your grave. ¹⁹ 

[16:23]  ¹ tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”

[13:13]  ² tn Or “kept.”

[13:13]  ³ tn Heb “commanded.”

[13:14]  ⁴ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

[13:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

[13:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “commanded.”

[15:23]  ⁷ tn Or “from [being].”

[6:30]  ⁸ tn This translation is intended to reflect the wordplay in the Hebrew text where the same root word is repeated in the two lines.

[14:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “on behalf of these people for benefit.”

[14:12]  ¹⁰ sn See 6:16-20 for parallels.

[14:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “through sword, starvation, and plague.”

[15:1]  ¹² tn The words “pleading for” have been supplied in the translation to explain the idiom (a metonymy). For parallel usage see BDB 763 s.v. עָמַד Qal.1.a and compare usage in Gen 19:27, Deut 4:10.

[15:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “my soul would not be toward them.” For the usage of “soul” presupposed here see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 6 in the light of the complaints and petitions in Jeremiah’s prayer in 14:19, 21.

[15:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Send them away from my presence and let them go away.”

[15:1]  ¹⁵ tn The words “pleading for” have been supplied in the translation to explain the idiom (a metonymy). For parallel usage see BDB 763 s.v. עָמַד Qal.1.a and compare usage in Gen 19:27, Deut 4:10.

[15:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “my soul would not be toward them.” For the usage of “soul” presupposed here see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 6 in the light of the complaints and petitions in Jeremiah’s prayer in 14:19, 21.

[15:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Send them away from my presence and let them go away.”

[5:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “All of them are mighty warriors.”

[5:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “his quiver [is] an open grave.” The order of the lines has been reversed to make the transition from “nation” to “their arrows” easier.